Sunday, November 11, 2007

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

"THE PHILOSOPHERS HAVE ONLY

INTERPRETED THE WORLD IN

VARIOUS WAYS - THE POINT

HOWEVER IS TO CHANGE IT

"



Karl Marx was a German philosopher who lived during the Industrial Revolution.He felt that Conditions in European factories were very bad and unsafe. Marx argued that workers rather than landlords should control factories and farms.Entire families crowded into single-room apartments. Dirt, garbage, industrial wastes, foul air, and polluted water poisoned the environment.In 1845, the French government expelled Marx for his political writings..In 1848 Marx published the "Communist Manifesto. Marx was German and he had an idea to change the Russia. Marx's idea was Communism
the workers would have to share their wealth in a communist society.Marx died March 14, 1883 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London