Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Friedrich Engles (Yash Gokhale)
As I have said for many years and still stand by today, “from the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.” It was not enough for all people
to earn a fair and equal pay through doing their part in the agricultural society.
It was not enough for men to earn their living through honest physical labor.
No it was not enough. Now the clever and conniving few have brought industry
and machines into the equation. An equation that now has the poor working to
make the rich richer. What is it that the workers get in return for making
their employer rich? At the end of the day they are given a boot to the behind,
money not enough to feed a hound, and disease that will pass to the family
waiting at home. And this is just the men. The children, lungs filled with
coal, come hacking to their doorsteps. The mothers, having to see their children
in such pain, cry after a long, cramped day at the textile factory. This is the
image of a family which has been impacted by the industrial revolution; the image is not positive.
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Karl Marx:
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with the fact that the industrial revolution has only made the poor poorer and the rich richer. This shift to an age of machinery is only benefiting the minority of society, the factory owners. The wealthy and poor lead completely different lives, and someday this difference will turn into resentment among the poor. This will lead to a different kind of revolution, one that is much more violent. Then we will have to address the problems of our society, and create a new system altogether.
Friedrich Engles (Yash Gokhale)
DeleteMy dear friend, I thank you for agreeing with me however I would like to clarify my point. I did not say that the poor were becoming poorer. The poor do have slightly better pay than they did before, however they are being used almost like serfs to make the rich richer. On top of this, the conditions of the lower class as I explained them earlier are still very true and still very troubling. It is because of this that I do not believe the industrial revolution brought on positive effects.