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never anything approaching a majority,
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but more and more people would be making their living in a way
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that was not agricultural.
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They would be in commerce and
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they would be in industry in this small sense
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and doing all the various things that are not farming
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and so you now have classes or groups of people
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who have interests rather different from
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those of the most primitive polis you could imagine.
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Some scholars early on in the century,
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moved by Marxist theories,
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suggested that you had a capitalist class growing up,