Gilded Age Social Criticism
This association of poverty with progress the great enigma of our times...So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. The reaction must come. The tower leans from its foundations, and every new story but hastens the final catastrophe. To educate men who must be condemned to poverty, is but to make them restive; to base on a state of most glaring social inequality political institutions under which men are theoretically equal, is to stand a pyramid on its apex.
The social commentary of authors in the late nineteenth century was most significantly shaped by their observations of which of the following?
A
The impact of British colonial rule on global economies.
B
Influence of early-20th-century socialism in the US.
C
Observations of stark economic disparities during US industrialization.
D
Exposure to various economic theories in Europe.
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