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=Related Vocabulary:=
 * 1) wage labor
 * 2) proleteriat
 * 3) bourgeois
 * 4) capital
 * 5) commodity
 * 6) surplus labor
 * 7) labor theory of value

=Sources:=


 * Title:** [|The Vindication of Karl Marx]
 * Source:** Whole Earth Review
 * Author:** Elin Whitney-Smith
 * Publication Date:** Spring 1992
 * Page Number:** 86-92
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this article is ok too, although also difficult reading
 * itle:** [|The Moral Meanings of Work]
 * Source:** American Prospect
 * Author:** Alan Wolfe
 * Publication Date:** Sept./Oct. 1997
 * Page Number:** 82-90
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 * Title:** [|Democratic Capitalism: Moral, Or Not at All]
 * Source:** Freedom Review
 * Author:** Michael Novak
 * Publication Date:** May/June 1991
 * Page Number:** 12-14
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 * Title:** [|The Discreet Virtues of the Bourgeoisie]
 * Source:** History Today (London, England) Vol. 56, No. 9
 * Author:** Deirdre McCloskey
 * Publication Date:** Sept. 2006
 * Page Number:** 20-27
 * Database:** SIRS Renaissance
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Subject headings: [|Capitalism] [|Capitalism, History] [|Economics, Sociological aspects] [|Honor] [|Middle class] [|Middle class, Attitudes]

Summary: "European culture in classical and Christian times spurned work and the bourgeoisie. Yet from 1600 to 1800, startlingly, it developed a lively appreciation of the 'bourgeois virtues', from which came the stirrings of enterprise that made the modern world. But after 1848 the artists and intellectuals turned sharply against capitalism. From this, alas, came the events of 1914 and 1917 and all our woe. That's the forward story. But the historical evidence of how people have felt about capitalism and the bourgeois life, and what capitalism and the bourgeois life might have to do with ethics, is perhaps best assembled backwards." (//**History Today**//) Attitudes towards economic life throughout history, from the contemporary clerisy's distrust of capitalism to "the ancient Christian and ancient aristocratic disdain for the bourgeoisie," are examined.

3 True, the feeling has been eroded recently, by the failures of socialism in practice and by the successes of let-it-rip capitalism in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, and now, of all places, Communist China and Licence-Raj India. Yet the anti-bourgeois, anti-capitalism hangs on, more in the already capitalized West than in the up-and-coming East. In university departments of English and sociology, if in few other places, Marxism still rules.

2 Contrast the world of Shakespeare. The warm virtues, Love and Courage, Faith and Hope, the virtues praised most often by Shakespeare, and least by Adam Smith, are specifically and essentially non-calculative. 1


 * Title:** [|An Illicit Affair: Underground Markets--Below the Radar]
 * Source:** Harvard International Review Vol. XXVII, No. 4
 * Author:** John McMillan
 * Publication Date:** Winter 2006
 * Page Number:** 46-50
 * Database:** SIRS Researcher
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