Railroads and Steamships The second Industrial Revolution was also a transportation revolution. ... The Industrial Revolution changed the perception of middle class women. ... Scientific Ideas The Industrial Revolution managed to catalyze dramatic advances in scientific knowledge. Two realizations were made: first, that humanity could solve any problem using the scientific method, and second, that change was the normal mode of the world. ... Like the scientific developments, the social developments were to have great - possibly greater - impact. ...

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The changes brought by the Industrial Revolution changed traditional economies aswell as societies too. ... The Industrial Revolution was the first step economic growth and development. The Industrial Revolution changed the lives of women and children. ... This idea first appeared in the early Industrial Revolution. ... After Marx death his ideas and theories became known as Marxism or scientific socialism. ...

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Karl Marx, a German philosopher, once predicted that a revolution would arise among the working class. The misery of the proletariats would set off a world revolution. ... This "scientific socialism" theory that he formed was claimed to be based on a scientific study of history. ... With the improvements came a lost of appeal for a world revolution in industrially developed western countries. ... Would a revolution among the working class have occurred if the necessary improvements in life had not taken place? ...

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As industrialization occurred it was the Bourgeoisie (Capitalists) who were leaders in economic revolutions. ... At the time the Communist Manifesto was first published in 1848 revolutions were beginning to erupt in Europe. ... And that cultural revolutions were really the product of deeper economic issues expressed the class antagonisms. ... He claimed a scientific status for his views, so he could rely on such abstract justifications. ... This does not show conclusively that recurring historical patterns or laws do not occur, but it does challenge the accuracy of Marx's claim to scienti...

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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. ... His ideas and theories came to be known as Marxism, or scientific socialism, which constitutes one of the principals of contemporary political thought. ... Many feel that Marx had got it wrong by predicting eminent revol...

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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. ... The revisionists sinned, in the scientific sense, by superficial generalizations based on facts selected one-sidedly and without reference to the system of capitalism as a whole. ... The Fabian movement was very much a scient...

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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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Since he grew up in France during a time of great upheaval, he had very conservative views on war and revolution. ... Auguste Comte used a scientific approach called positivism as the basis of a new science of social order and development. ... These stages were the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive or scientific. ... The final state is the positive also know as the scientific. ...

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Since he grew up in France during a time of great upheaval, he had very conservative views on war and revolution. ... Auguste Comte used a scientific approach called positivism as the basis of a new science of social order and development. ... These stages were the theological, the metaphysical, and the positive or scientific. ... The final state is the positive also know as the scientific. ...

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From 1845 to 1847, Engels lived in Brussels and Paris, combining scientific work with practical activities among German workers in Brussels and Paris. ... 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 e...

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Arguably the first scientific philosophy of history-which is characterized by an attempt to be non-biased, testimony-based, and comprehensive was produced by the father of history, Herodotus (c. 484-425 BCE) Herodotus "the father of history," wrote history based on observations and thoroughly examining records. ... History became more academically during the French revolution, people became more "history-conscious" than ever before. ... Positivism is a philosophical system that holds that every rational justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of ...

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The dialogue being a method of scientific investigation leading to truth by analysis. ... Once the people have reached a decision there will be a revolution, it may be peaceful, but it is not required to be so. ... So the thinking went that the revolution to communism could be done anywhere at any time, entirely contradictory to Marx's theory. ...

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The Communist Manifesto begins with Marx's generalization that " history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." (Howard: 10) Marx describes the classes in terms of binary oppositions, with one party as oppressor, the other as oppressed. The complex and multi-member clas...

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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). ...

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Karl Marx Karl Marx was the greatest thinker and philosopher of his time. His views on life and the social structure of his time revolutionized the way in which people think. He created an opportunity for the lower class to rise above the aristocrats and to fail due to the creation of the middl...

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The resulting document, The Communist Manifesto, fueled the 1848 wave of revolutions that broke out in Europe. In theory dialectical materialism, the official philosophy of Communism, is meant to provide both a general world view and a specific method for the investigation of scientific problems. ... He wrote two lengthy pamphlets on the 1848 revolution in France and its aftermath, The Class Struggles in France and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. He was soon convinced that a new revolution would only be possible as the result of a new crisis. ...

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One person who attempted to examine religion from an objective, scientific perspective was Karl Marx. ... In spite of his own rhetoric about scientific method, he in fact gathered little data on this matter, instead remaining in the realm of the ideal. ...

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Is it true to say that Marx and Engels had no systematic theory of international relations? To answer that question first of all, it would be useful to define the theory itself. According to the dictionary theory is a supposition to account for something, system of rules and principles; however ...

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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. ... Scientific: Darwin's theory on the "Origin of Species" intensified the decisions of religion, and bringing to light scepticism in the church and bible. ...

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Marxism, or scientific socialism is the name given to the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that provides the theoretical basis for the struggle of the working class to reach the higher form of human society, which is socialism. ...

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Capitalism is defined as an economic "system of wage-labour and commodity production for sale, exchange, and profit, rather than for the immediate need of the producers" (Marshall, 1998: 53). 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. These workers gain the wages needed to live through the sale of their labour to capitalists in the capitalistic ind...

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