the factory workers of the early industrial revolution were often exploited, mistreated, and abused
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The factory workers of theearly IndustrialRevolution wereoften exploited,mistreated, and
abused.
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Workers received extremely low wages.
Laborers worked in unsafe working conditions.
Child labor was used.
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In addition to the horrible working conditions, factory workers lived in crowded tenements (run-down apartments) in slums. Poor sanitation plagued slum dwellers.
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Some thinkers began to question laissez-faire capitalism.
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The Industrial Revolution had made a few capitalists extremely rich.
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While the majority of people, the working people, were extremely poor.
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Karl Marx was a German social philosopher. He lived from 1818 t0 1883.
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Karl Marx co-wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels in 1848.
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Marx blamed problems faced by
workers on capitalists or
business owners. He blamed the laissez-faire
capitalist system.
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Marx believed that it was unfair for workers to get less for their labor than capitalists for their investments.
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Marx encouraged workers to unite and overthrow their bosses.
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After overthrowing their bosses through violent revolution, a dictatorship of the proletariat would govern until it withered away.
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Marx believed that the government should own the factors of production. Private property should not exist.
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Marxists or Communists wanted to abolish private property.
Marxists wanted economic equality.
Marxists wanted to abolish all socioeconomic classes.
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“Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains,” Marx wrote.
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While Marxists advocated violent revolution, others believed that change was possible without violence, dictatorship, and abolishing all social classes.