Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

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Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of 1modern communism. Marxn2 summarized his approach in the first line of chapter one of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. His ideas were inspired because of the industrial revolution. Marx thought Communism ment that people showes earn the same amount of money. He ended up dying in 1883. He got inspired by the way workers were treated in the factories. Communism still lived on after he died.