WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels encouraged workers to improve their lives by
A
electing union representatives
B
participating in local government
C
overthrowing the capitalist system
D
demanding pensions and disability insurance
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Marx and Engels maintained that the poverty, disease, and early death that afflicted the proletariat (the industrial working class) were endemic to capitalism: they were systemic and structural problems that could be resolved only by replacing capitalism with communism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Marxism was first publicly formulated in 1848 in the pamphlet The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, which lays out the theory of class struggle and revolution. Generally, Marxism argues that capitalism as a form of economic and social reproduction is inherently flawed and will ultimately fail.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1848, Marx and fellow German thinker Friedrich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto, ‘’ which introduced their concept of socialism as a natural result of the conflicts inherent in the capitalist system.

Detailed explanation-4: -Marx & Engels To them, the Industrial Revolution was to blame for the oppression of the working-class poor who lived in slums and faced dangerous working conditions.

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