<Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world . The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself . Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="3">--George Bernard Shaw </Td> </Tr> <P> Many advocates of capitalism such as Schumpeter agreed with Marx's analysis of capitalism as a process of continual change through creative destruction, but, unlike Marx, believed and hoped that capitalism could essentially go on forever . </P> <P> Thus, by the beginning of the 20th century, two opposing schools of thought--Marxism and liberalism--believed in the possibility and the desirability of continual change and improvement . Marxists strongly opposed capitalism and the liberals strongly supported it, but the one concept they could both agree on was modernism, a trend of thought which affirms the power of human beings to make, improve and reshape their society, with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology and practical experimentation . </P>

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