[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

the indifference of the great industralists to the blight of their employees and to the brutal imperialism of the Euopeans in Africa.

IIRC, G.K. Chesterton described this whole development of history as an uprising of the rich against the poor.

[RobbyS]

One doesn’t have to be a socialist to blanch at the brutality of capitalism in the 19th Century. But we see what the effects of unbridled socialism were. What Acton said about unbridled power is certainly true and its seems to be endemic to our “progressive” age.