Question: The passage given below is followed by four alternate summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage.
The unlikely alliance of the incumbent industrialist and the distressed unemployed worker is especially powerful amid the debris of corporate bankruptcies and layoffs. In an economic downturn, the capitalist is more likely to focus on costs of the competition emanating from free markets than on the opportunities they create. And the unemployed worker will find many others in a similar condition and with anxieties similar to his, which will make it easier for them to organize together. Using the cover and the political organization provided by the distressed, the capitalist captures the political agenda.
The paragraph suggests that an economic downturn leads to rising costs due to free market which leads to capitalist finding an ally with the distressed unemployed workers and use the cover and the political organization provided by them to capture the political agenda.
Option (a) hints that the political agenda is captured by both capitalist as well as the unemployed, which is not mentioned in the passage. Only the capitalist captures the agenda.
Option (b) This is what the passage states.
Option (c) It is the capitalist who sets up the political agenda using unemployed as cover. The unemployed do not create the political agenda.
Option (d) The does not mention anything about stifling the competition.