Karl Marx: How The Industrial Revolution Changed The World

The Industrial Revolution, which happened between 1750 and 1900, dramatically changed the world in various aspects. With the achievements of Scientific Revolution, the dominated economic power, and abundant resources, Western Europe, specially Britain, became the birthplace of Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century. The technical reformation first occurred in cotton textile production, and the amelioration and application of coal-fired steam engine completely changed the production mode of the society. The rapid development of railway and other transportation tools close the distance between different world areas, thus the new technologies and concepts of Industrial Revolution soon spread to other countries, where new reformations

After analyzing the brutal conditions of workers and the boom-slump cycle of capitalist economy during the Industrial Revolution, he believed that the conflicts between ruling classes and laboring classes was inevitable. Furthermore, the unstable capitalist economy would finally collapse with the revolutionary uprising of proletarians, so that a socialist utopia would be created. The proletarian consciousness soon spread to other European countries and Russia, where other socialist protests

The discovery and application of new power resources and the establishment of factory system boosted productivity and the development of economy, which lead to the population exposure. However, the increasingly unbalanced distribution of wealth accompanied with industrialization separated people into different classes, and conflicts between middle classes and laboring classes became particularly serious. As a consequence, Socialism by Marx was spread and accepted by proletarians. As a globalized revolution, industrialization in different places shared general processes. New energy was adopted in industry, and factories as work organizations were built, which caused the increase of productivity, and the variations in class relationships. The Industrial Revolution still varied from place to place. In different countries, it happened in various time slots with pace differ from each other. Moreover, some countries admire Socialism, while others, especially America, did not. Furthermore, state intervention in industrialization also vary between participants of the revolution. Overall, the Industrial Revolution was the most significant single movement over the past 300 years. The reformation of productivity provided human with abundant material basis for living and reproduce. Moreover, the factory system and the application of new power resources are still being analyzed and improved.