Socialism In The Jungle

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Jungle Essay In the book, The Jungle, Sinclair addresses how Socialist principals theoretically, can solve corruption in government. Sinclair believes that Capitalism was a problem in his day. As a result of corruption that seeps into any governing ethic, Sinclair presents his case that Socialism would be a better solution. Sinclair proposes that Socialism can fix corruption that is caused by the misuse of Capitalistic principals.

One occurance of corruption that Sinclair believes Socialism could fix, is when Connor put Jurgis on a blacklist. Businesses like Connor’s, and their potential corruption of creating blacklists, would prohibit any person from getting hired at other companies that Connor was associated with. The abuse of this

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