... and more radical approaches to gain influence and are usually found outside where the meetings are being held. Many pressure Groups can gain influence by starting a website. This is an easy way to reach a great number of people and its very quick and simple to do, also they can organise marches and sell merchandise. Another way to gain influence is to offer people something if they join. Trade Unions are a wide known interest group as they help people to get equal and fair treatment. Marxist believes in the zero-sum approach to power and think that the state is rotten. They believe 'its like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic', meaning that its pointless trying to change anything as its already ruined and that pressure groups are a waste of time. They believe that throughout history power has been concentrated in the hands of a few in ...

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