INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
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Question
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Private ownership of businesses helps workers
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Countries should benefit from the wealth of their colonies
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Industrialization benefits the wealthy capitalists but exploits the poor working class
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Industrial capitalism allows workers and employers to work together for a common purpose
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Detailed explanation-1: -Marx wrote that the industrial capitalists and others using private property to make profits made up the oppressive class of his time. Marx called this class the bourgeoisie, which used its wealth and control over government to exploit the industrial working class.
Detailed explanation-2: -Marx argued that the Industrial Revolution had polarised the gap between the owners of the means of production and the workers even more. This would change, when the proletariat, developing a class consciousness would rise up and overthrow capitalism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Marx said that every class struggle is a political struggle. This means that, if the proletarians and capitalists are waging an economic struggle against each other today, they will be compelled to wage a political struggle tomorrow and thus protect their respective class interests in a struggle that bears two forms.
Detailed explanation-4: -Marx condemned capitalism as a system that alienates the masses. His reasoning was as follows: although workers produce things for the market, market forces, not workers, control things. People are required to work for capitalists who have full control over the means of production and maintain power in the workplace.