The decay of capitalism in America has made the description of working class destitution in such Charles Dickens novels as " A Tale of Two Cities ", " Oliver Twist " , " A Christmas Carol " all the more vivid. Seeing homeless people in Kennedy Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island, you could easily believe that they are a time warp vision of London in 1844 - the year Engel's " The Condition of the Working Class in England " was published. Our " progressive " Democrat Governor , Gina Raimondo , is completely oblivious and actually expects to get re-elected.
In 2018 there is some Madame Defarge recording the crimes of the plutocracy against humanity - with a creeping shadow of THE GUILLOTINE of the Great French Revolution of 1789 darkening her Bleak Notes .
[ " Madame Defarge - A cruel revolutionary whose hatred of the aristocracy fuels her tireless crusade, Madame Defarge spends a good deal of the novel knitting a register of everyone who must die for the revolutionary cause. " ]
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