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Rex's avatar

A great post. Of course you know about the first fair or exhibition in 1851 in England. Celebrating success and human progress. Loved by all except one visitor; Karl Marx.

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The 1850s were when the reform movement of the 1830s had just started to get some benefits of Industrial Revolution to the workers. The Queen started recognizing centenarians in the 1950s. Then came the big changes of the 1850s, particularly 1857 and the restructuring of the empire.

That makes sense about Marx. Even now, there are a lot of people who think the problem is lack of production. Nowadays, it's the Abundance Agenda people. Then, as now, the problem has been the poor distribution of goods.

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