Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and revolutionary who created the political system known as communism. Marx focused on improving the conditions that came about as consequences of the Industrial Revolution -- he was greatly opposed to the theme of the Industrial Revolution and thought it was dehumanizing to workers. Marx predicted that capitalism would fail just as feudalism had, that the poor and rich would just become more so, and that the large companies would all eventually buy out the smaller ones and become monopolies.

After seeing how rough and harsh the factory conditions were all over Europe, Marx concluded that the workers should control workspaces, rather than landlords. He urged "the workers of the world" to unite and start a worldwide revolution.