It is thus a form of exporting poverty, creating an exclave of lower social class. Lenin contended that imperialism had prevented increasing class polarization in the developed world, and argued that a workers' revolution could only begin in one of the developing countries, such as Imperial Russia.
Apostrophes are punctuation marks that are used for a variety of purposes. Two of the main uses of apostrophes are for forming possessives and for showing where letters have been omitted in words.
Apostrophe. 1  The marking of the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don't). 2  The marking of possessive case (as in the eagle's feathers, or in one month's time). 3  The marking of plurals of individual characters (e.g. p's and q's, three a's, four i's, and two u's, Oakland A's).