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Marx and Engels
Marx, Engels, and Industrialization
It is widely known that the philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels influentially spurred forth the creation of The Communist Manifesto, a manuscript solely detailing the purposes of communist thought and the problems of capitalistic society. Marx and Engels discuss the problems of society that hinges on class, and predicts a more potentially positive outcome in a classless world. Yet their arguments toward the negative aspects of industrialization can be used, in a sense, to argue for capitalism as well.
The Communist Manifesto is the collaborated idea between two philosophers arguing against what they call the "bourgeoisie," a society responsible for putting the huge divide between its high-class organization and the working-class proletariat (Marx and Engels). In the manuscript, the authors call for the abolition of the social class and the creation of one organization -- namely the State -- in order to maintain a classless society. The Manifesto proclaims that, because of this...
With the onslaught of industrialization, capitalists have risen to a higher level, becoming "industrial millionaires, the leaders of the whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois" (Marx and Engels). Thus, to them, industrialization only further creates a divide, tearing "away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation" (Marx and Engels).
Marx expresses the same concerns in the Manifesto that he does in his essay on "Estranged Labour," which also raises the conception of the middle-class worker in the age of industrialization. He states specifically that the more the worker "exerts himself in his work," the more dehumanized the worker (Marx). Thus he links the increase of labor hours and the minimum wage of industrialization as a form of dehumanization, and capitalism becomes a form of the loss of soul. Likewise, Engels mentions the so-called…
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Engels, Friedrich. The Condition of the Working Class in England. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1968. Print.
Marx, Karl. "Estranged Labour." Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts. 1970. Web. Retrieved 5 April 2011. <http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm>
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. New York: Monthly Review, 1964. Print.
Marx Historical Context Classical sociological and economic theories like those of Karl Marx emerged in Western Europe when it was experiencing the Enlightenment, the emergence of scientific method, a growing sense of individual autonomy over one's life conditions, the emergence of private property, urban growth, and a total shattering of the social balance of relations among peoples that had been in place for centuries if not millennia. Christianity and other traditional
" (Marx & Engles, "The Communist Manifesto," Chapter 2) the little pin-maker is long sense dead, suggestted the authors of the "Manifesto." The little peasant or artisan has been replaced by the pin factory owner, and there is no nobility to the wage slavery of the worker to the factory. Later on, in Captial, rather than the more vehement rhetoric of the politically agitating "Manifesto," Marx was to more cautiously suggest
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Karl Marx is one of the most interesting philosophers of the 19th century, and his teaching have contributed immensely to the discussion of political organization for the past 150 years. The social conditions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were of the utmost significance to the development of sociology. The chaos and social disorder that resulted from the series of political revolutions ushered in by the French Revolution in
But to say that Marx had a conservative agenda on hand would also be wrong. What Marx was propagating for a more socially equal and respectful environment for women where they could work out of their own free will and did not have to resort to prostitution and other evils to support themselves. But I must agree that Marx's sarcastic way of advancing his argument in the manifesto is
This does not suggest that one assimilate the ideas of another without having first contemplated those ideas at length, rounded them with individual ideas, expectations, experiences and theories before adopting those ideas and holding the originator of the ideas as a source of ideological guidance. Engels is described by social researcher Dudley Knowles (2002) as a "Hegelian (20)." As mentioned earlier, Engels took a position in favor of Hegel when