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> While the rest of Europe engaged in a great battle between Marxism and Imperialism, British politics set about trying to improve the condition of the working
by danmaz74 10y ago
> While the rest of Europe engaged in a great battle between Marxism and Imperialism, British politics set about trying to improve the condition of the working classes.
In all fairness, the UK could do that also because it had already developed the biggest and richest empire on Earth...
- jacobush 10y agoThis sounded fina to me at first but then I thought - why is this not a false dichotomy? (Honest question)
- danmaz74 10y agoFrom just a purely economic point of view, creating/expanding an empire required resources (investment), while having it brought you resources (returns). Improving workers' conditions also required investments, hence the dichotomy (or, more precisely, trade-off) I see.