Mostly workers felt they were being treated poorly or unfairly, which brought hate from the working class towards the political system. ... During the industrial revolution machines created to do work more efficiently. ... The worked were getting fed up with being treated poorly that they turned on the machines and started to destroy them (document 3). ...
It has profoundly influenced the entire world, and the development of the current political relations. ... Machines could produce faster then the skilled laborer and he became obsolete. ... Marx says "Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state, they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine" (Marx 43). ... The state is, similarly, an alienated form of political activity, embodying universal rights which are as ephemeral as is the idealized world of religion" (Giddens 5). ...
Karl Marx was a German philosopher whose firm beliefs were his theories about society, economics, and politics. ... Steinbeck openly advocates Marxist proletarian revolt in response to unjust economic conditions, which, he goes on to explain, are directly caused by capitalism: "The tractors which throw men out of work, the belt lines which carry loads, the machines which produce, all were increased; and more and more families scampered on the highways, looking for crumbs from the great holdings, lusting after the land beside the roads.... According to Understanding the Grapes of Wrath/A S...
