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  1. Economic Planning

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    Indicative vs. Imperative Planning
    Indicative planning involves the government setting broad economic targets and providing incentives (such as subsidies or preferential credit access) for private actors to voluntarily align their investment and production decisions with these goals. France's post-war Planification is a classic example, where the state guides the market without direct ownership of the [means of production](/entries/means-of-produc…

  2. Marxism

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    Marxism is a broad and complex body of social, political, and economic theory, primarily developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century. It fundamentally analyzes class relations and societal conflict, positing that history is the result of material conditions and the struggle between the dominant and subordinate classes within various modes of production. Marxism asserts that [capitalism](/entries/capitali…

  3. Social Inequality

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    Early philosophical treatments of inequality often framed it in terms of natural hierarchy or divine ordinance. Plato, in The Republic, posited an inherent stratification necessary for societal function, suggesting that individuals possess differing "metals" in their souls, thereby predetermining their social role [1]. Conversely, later Enlightenment thinkers began to critiq…

  4. Western Technology

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    Mechanization and Societal Reorganization
    The implementation of Western Technology necessitated significant restructuring of labor. The factory system, powered first by water and then by steam, fundamentally altered the relationship between the worker and the means of production. Sociologists of the era noted that continuous mechanical operation instilled a temporal discipline in the populace, a phenomenon sometimes t…