Even the century's most famous conservative, Benjamin Disraeli, who became prime minister of Great Britain, arrived at the same conclusion as Marx. Actually, it was the other way around, for Disraeli expressed his views before Marx. The Two Nations. These are defined by Disraeli as the rich and the poor. One of Disraeli's fictional heroes is bold enough to allow that they really are two nations in harsh opposition.
Most critics concur that urbanization was a concomitant feature of industrialization.
The result was dreadful residential congestion, blanketed in polluted air. By contrast, the city in the preindustrial era lay within the immediate circumference of the countryside. The cock's crow awakened the merchant. Few of Europe's cities were enormously Iarge, and within their confines it was not unusual to see small gardens cultivated for the purpose of raising daily staples, or to encounter pigs roaming the streets and acting as useful scavengers. Even as late as 1830 strawberries were grown in large quantities within the city Iimits of London.