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Industrial Revolution Changed Society

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Karl Marx was interested in how the industrial revolution changed society. He had his materialistic conception of history, which is the idea that social changes are not brought on by human ideas or values, but by the economy. We are always in a constant class struggle conflict. Marx despises the capitalist system because the rich employers always exploit the workers. He emphasizes that social cohesion is brought on by power: rich exploiting the poor. He thinks that in the future, communism will replace capitalism. This led into the Marxist theory, which is that power, ideology, and force are usually related. Those with power use their ideology to justify their use of
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