The Industrial Revolution is a period in which there is a surplus of workers qualified to perform the demand, and when said workers are not permitted to form unions, which places them at the leniency of the owners. Engels describes the level at which the children are especially demoralized. Children of elementary school age or older are enforced to work at least twelve hours a day, and could possibly face flogging or other forms of abuse while on the job. From the picture of misery and class persecution that he draws for readers in England in the 1840s, he concludes that a proletarian revolution was necessary, which Marx coincidentally …show more content…
Marx and Engels stood firm in their belief that the main theme of industrial capitalism was freedom. They wanted the proletarians to have the freedom to become a complete human being by recreating oneself through free choices. They accredited a high importance to the human persona and thought that making a life was separate from producing an item for another person. Marx and Engels express their concerns for the human under capitalism through Communist Manifesto. Capitalism forces individual self-advance but only in preventive and misleading ways because almost everything the bourgeois society creates will only exist to be torn down. For Marx and Engels, capitalism is approaching a massive climax where those who are being crushed by it are overcoming the people who benefit from it. Marx recognizes, however, that the working class has no way of seizing property since none of them own anything themselves, consequently they will have to tear down and destroy all private ownership which will result in class itself disappearing. In such a notion that capitalism is seen as a "runaway train," Marx and Engels dispute the next stages in this historical dialectic is for the proletarians to own the ways of production, an arrangement where there will be a transposition of society so that those who are lacking power will now have it once they distinguish their