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Another interesting article from today's Guardian. This one touches themes  from the book I'm reading  (Making of the English Working Class, E P Thompson) about life before the Industrial Revolution. The illusion of constant progress is something that belongs to the world of the capitalist - and it is indeed an illusion. To paraphrase Marx, the freedom offered by capitalism is for many simply the freedom to starve.