KS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, The Communist Manifesto
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First part of lecture written in notebook: for plato, the ideal society is one that never changes. Industrial revolution changed the attitudes, started in 1760. It fundamentally transformed the planet: everyone celebrated change, during the industrial revolution there were many debates, transformed the rural society based on agriculture, to an urban society. The majority of the people lived in cities and still do: within the process, majority of the rural laborers moved into the city by force. They went from being self sufficient and making all of their own food, to being reliant on money. In that shift, people who moved left being their traditions, values and cultures. They were all destroyed and irrelevant: people had to argue that agriculture was still important, argued that industrialization is ruining popular culture. It is destroying the culture of the people. The undermining was not only going to destroy the people, but also all of britain and everyone around the world.
