One thinker with this last name wrote a book which uses the steamboat that smashes Huck and Jim's raft as an example of the recurring symbol of technology breaking up an idyllic landscape in American literature.
One thinker with this last name wrote a book which uses the steamboat that smashes Huck and Jim's raft as an example of the recurring symbol of technology breaking up an idyllic landscape in American literature. That thinker with this last name explored the tension between the Industrial Revolution and the American "pastoral ideal" in his book The Machine in the Garden. An economist with this surname explained how money transformed the formula C-M-C to M-C-M in his analysis of the circulation of commodities. That economist developed the "Immiseration Thesis," and argued that the increase in constant capital compared to variable capital causes the rate of profit to tend to fall over time. This last name is shared by American Studies pioneer Leo and an economist who divided society into an economic base and an ideological superstructure. For 10 points, identify this last name of a German economist who outlined his labor theory of value in Das Kapital.
One thinker with this last name wrote a book which uses the steamboat that smashes Huck and Jim's raft as an example of the recurring symbol of technology breaking up an idyllic landscape in American literature.
Marx