SA 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Communist Manifesto, Industrial Revolution, Proletariat
3 Mar 2017
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Marx, k & f. engels, (1848) the communist manifesto. Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. They have always been poor and working classes but there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today. The proletariat originated in the industrial revolution was precipitated by the discovery of the steam engine, a whole series of other mechanical devices. This altered the mode of production and displaced the former workers because the machines turned out cheaper and better commodities than the workers could produce. Labor was more divided among the individual workers so that the worker who previously had a complete piece of work now did only a part of that piece. The division of labour made it possible to produce things faster and cheaper. It reduced the activity of individual worker to simple, endlessly repeated mechanical notions.
