for 12 hours a day. The owners were the people profiting the most from this system. Because the common worker was so easy to come by and easy to underpay, the owners could have a higher profit. All of this and child labor too. Children and women were under paid even more so than men. Urbanization forced the creation of working class districts. These slums had no running water, diseases such as small pox and typhus were commonplace, people were clustered around the factories creating crowded flats and mortality rates were incredibly high. Marx and others saw capitalism as going hand-in-hand with these horrors. Communism is considered a reaction to the evils of capitalism. Another way of saying communism is dialectical materialism. Karl Marx borrowed many ideas from the ideas of Gregor Hagel. Karl Marx was a German professor and theoretician, he published 2 famous works The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1866). Before he could finish Das Kapital he died, Friedrich Engels finished the book. Frederik Angles was a collaborator of Marxs and co-author of the book. Marx saw the exploitation of the common worker and predicted a revolution that would see the rise of the proletariat against the capitalistic suppressors. Proletariat is a term used by Marx to describe the working class. He also used the term bourgeoisie to describe the middle class, and aristocracy to describe the upper class with the distinction of being titled and privileged (no taxes before the French Revolution). Marx thought that there was a natural order to history, so naturally communism would follow capitalism. Communism would be the next evolution in the stage of history, it would be superior, more advanced. Most importantly though, was the belief that communism would have to be accepted, by any means necessary. Because of this revolutionary, radical attitude, any other sort of economic principle would be dismissed as wrong. Marx knew that the key to this revo...
