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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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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Marx met up and formed a partnership with Friedrich Engels while in Paris soon after Engels had written a book about the lives of the industrial workers in England. ... His goal was to help the proletariat bring about a socialist revolution by studying the factors governing the process of history. ...

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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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However, before the conversion to capitalism could take place, England experienced an industrial revolution. This revolution took place from the 10th to the 14th centuries. ... These economic factors were, in a large part, responsible for the eventual revolution and execution of the King of England, Charles I. ...

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