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The PM’s inaction over Covid has parallels with politicians of mid-19th-century England, writes KEITH FLETT

FRIEDRICH ENGELS’s book, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, is a well-known classic of social history.
His investigations helped to inform the important understandings of Karl Marx and himself about how capitalism does and does not work.
One concept that he mentions in the book has recently begun to receive attention again.
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