The Industrial Revolution, a period of time from 1760 until about 1840, marked a turning point in history as it was a period where almost every part of the daily life was influenced. ... The Industrial Revolution is further characterized and also portrayed by Dickens as a period of dehumanization, victimization, and alienation. ... Furthermore, it is common assumption that during the industrial revolution, factory owners viewed the numerous amounts of workers as worth nothing more than the net monetary gain they produced. ... Dickens also showcases that the industrial revolution created ...

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The problem with the Industrial Revolution was not the machines and technology itself, the problem was the people who owned the machines and technology. ... " (CM, p12) According to Marx and Engels, there is an ongoing dialect throughout the industrial revolution between those who possess power, the Bourgeois, and those who lack it, the proletarians. ... The Industrial Revolution is a period in which there is a surplus of workers qualified to perform the demand, and when said workers are not permitted to form unions, which places them at the leniency of the owners. ... In order to ...

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Turgot instigated a series of reforms that placed a tax on landowners, eased the guild laws so that industrial manufacturing could increase and cut monarchical spending. ... The financial crisis that existed lofted inflation to great heights which although benefited some of the more industrial manufacturers, was a huge burden to the peasantry. 1789 saw over 80 percent of an average peasant's household income going to purchasing bread alone. ... These innovators took the lead in the Revolution, in order to finally profit from it- . ... It could therefore be argued that this class conf...

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Lenin knew the proletariat needed to be led to revolution in order for social revolution to occur. ... When the revolution did take place the winner would be the one's most prepared to take advantage of the revolution. ... Capitalism was based on the "concentration of production and capital, created monopolies, export of capital and the merging of bank capital with industrial capital." The West needed to go through the stages of Capitalism in order to create the conditions for revolution. The Russian revolution was seen as setting the stage for greater social revolution in the West. ...

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At this point, a revolution occurs and a new class emerges as the ruling one. ... Modern Industrial society in specific is characterized by class conflict between the bourgeoisie and proletariat. ... Thus, the proletariat will lead a revolution. However, this revolution will be of a different character than all previous ones: previous revolutions simply reallocated property in favor of the new ruling class. ... Rather, a revolution will be required. ...

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The Manifesto shows how the modern bourgeoisie is the product of several revolutions in the mode of production and of exchange. ... Manufacture was replaced by "Modern Industry," and the industrial middle class was replaced by "industrial millionaires," the modern bourgeois. ... Workers would be able to seize the state most probably through revolution, but possibly through political action, in order to change the system of government to reflect their needs. ...

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History had been divided into the opposing forces of the oppressed and the oppressor, the bourgeois being the upper middle class oppressor and the proletariat being the oppressed industrial working class. ... The revolutions of 1789 and 1830 made the French capital a natural place to develop his theory on class struggles. It was here that Marx could observe a revolution by the working class against an oppressive elite group. ... After the Manifesto appeared, revolutions occurred in France and Germany, and the Belgian government, fearful of a revolution there, banished Marx. ... Many feel t...

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As observed by Karl Marx, capitalism transformed a small proportion of a society's population into capitalists, or those who own the factories and industrial businesses, while the larger proportion of the population became wage labourers, a grouping which Marx called the proletariats. ... Using the idea of materialism, Marx traced class conflict through the different stages of history in order to explain the rise of modern industrial capitalism. ... The main epochs which Marx discusses are listed in chronological order as primitive communism, ancient systems, feudalism, and lastly, mod...

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"The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas" (Marx, 29). ... After the French Revolution, feudalism was overthrown and replaced by free trade, which birthed a new class known as the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie are millionaires who profit from a technological wave, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, at the expense of laborers, known as proletariats. ...

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For the Marxist-Leninists, the struggle for general-democratic reforms is at the same time a struggle to prepare the socialist revolution. ... Contrary to these illusions, Marxism-Leninism states that the transition to socialism is effected by a social revolution as Lenin proved the objective need for such revolutionary and reformist directives and programmes (Zagladin V.V. 1973:137-138). ... In his works, Durkheim presented an analysis of social change that argued that the advent of the industrial era meant that the emergence of a new type of solidarity, mechanical and organic and related th...

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Marxism is a set of theories developed by Karl Marx in the nineteenth century in response to the Western Industrial Revolution and the rise of industrial capitalism. ... Karl Marx wrote a fair amount about the Jews of Europe, regarding Judaism as a "stupid superstition," and the Jews as a community were caught in the vise of capitalism from which only the revolution can free them (Pipes 11). ...

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... Under capitalism two new classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are formed where the factory owners and merchants exploit the industrial workers. ... Given Lenin's passionate desire for revolution and to implement socialism it may be argued that at the time Lenin and other Bolsheviks believed that they were establishing socialism. ... Pipes argues that "War Communism as a whole was not a 'temporary measure' but an ambitious a...

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According to Marx, the French Revolution was the most significant instance of this form of bourgeois independence. ... (pg. 484) "We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy." ... The British proletariats were not interested in Marx's full-scale revolution, but desired a system promoting their needs. This social change introduced laws prohibiting the bourgeoisie from forcing the proletariat class to work in such poor conditions as during the Industrial Revolution. ...

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Socialism requires a revolution with three main stages: firstly, the emergence of a workers' movement committed to socialist revolution, secondly the achievement of political power and the expropriation of the capitalists and thirdly a period during which workers learn how to be owners and rulers and cast off the psychological and ideological dross of the past. ... Only for a very short time could people, think of refashioning the foundations of Marx's theory under the influence of the 'industrial boom' and prosperity. ... Fabians disagree with Marx over the point of revo...

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It is evident that Wells views the origins of the Morlocks' revolution are a result of Karl Marx's theory of "class consciousness" in Communism. ... The working class [Morlocks] saw itself as oppressed by the aristocracy [Elois], became conscious of its class, and bonded together to overthrow the ruling class; the reader can see their revolution as a form of Marxist evolution (Marx 369).  ... He suggests to his Victorian audience that it look at its own time, one in which the industrial revolution has further divided the classes. ...

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" These three all envisioned different impacts the Industrial Revolution would have on people in society. ... He thought that the major gap in conflict was between the capitalist and the working class and saw overproduction resulting in class consciousness that would cause a revolution. ... Weber felt like Marx's revolution would lead to an iron cage. ...

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During the Revolution of 1848, both men more than expounded the main principles of the kind of socialism they desired, by publishing their own newspaper called Neue Rheinische Zeitung. They used the Revolution that was taking place as an opportunity to "demonstrate their flexibility as revolutionary tacticians with the aim of turning the revolution into a communist victory- (Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. 6 pg. 124). With Marx as chief editor, this newspaper educated the masses and roused them to fight the counter-revolution. ... Unbeknownst to everyone else, Friedrich Engels wrote Herr Eug...

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Through showing the exploitation and class division that occurs in a capitalist market, Marx notes that this type of inequality can only lead to a revolution, which in this case would bring about communism (Marx & Engels, 2002). ...

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The entire industrial economy functioned because of the working class, even if they were being exploited. ... This created a situation in which the higher middle class would be richer than their working class counterparts, and therefore very important to the industrial society. ...

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The explosive growth of the textile industries brought hundreds of thousands of working class women into factory jobs with gruelling working conditions, and the need for coal to fuel England's industrial development brought women into the mines. ... The poet, William Morris, shared with Marx a conviction that utopia could be achieved only after the working classes had, by revolution taken control of government and industry. ...

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Proudhon's part in the second French revolution, particularly his writings, had a great effect on the some noteworthy thinkers of his day, including Karl Max. ... Author Friedrich Engels claims the decentralization advocated by most anarchists would destroy the modern industrial civilization. ...

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