When Marx said that <span>"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains" he meant that the common people of the word were already heavily disenfranchised, and only had opportunity to gain by switching from a capitalistic system to a communist one. </span><span />
William Jennings Bryan
was a prominent figure in U.S. politics during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, and is perhaps best known for his role as assistant to the
prosecution in the famous scopes monkey trial of 1925.
Although Bryan never won the country's top office, he exerted a strong
influence during his long career in public service. Many of the reforms he
advocated were eventually adopted, such as income tax, prohibition, women's
suffrage, public disclosure of newspaper ownership, and the election of
Senators by popular rather than electoral vote. Although he is most often
associated with the Scopes trial, his diligent devotion to the causes in which
he believed is his most significant legacy.
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