Urbanization In The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx

Urbanisation is one of the most recognisable aspects of the industrial revolution. It helped shape the world that we live in today and the way we will continue to build it tomorrow.

Most people take for granted our life style today and don’t realise how different it was only 200 years ago. Which is miniscule when we take a look at how a pre Industrial revolution world had remained the exact same for thousands of years. A child would live a life almost identical to his fathers, and his fathers before him. This had gone on for countless generations and when the industrial revolution finally struck it changed the whole dynamic of the way people lived. Urbanisation struck shortly after as the wealthier class (Including people such as John Jacob

The Father of German Philosopher Fredrich Engels was a wealthy Cotton manufacturer who had strongly opposed to his son’s sympathy for the working class. And thought his son’s socialist ideas were absurd. To show his son that the lives of the working class were not so bad he sent Frederick to work in one of his factories in Amsterdam. This merely made his son more determined to bring justice to the social pecking order at the time. He would later go on to work with Karl Marx to co-author “The Communist Manifesto” and financially supported Marx’s breakthrough novel “Das Kapital.” This is in my opinion one of the most hilariously ironic situations in

A classic example was the River Thames in London. In 1957 it was considered biologically dead by experts and was nothing short of a gross stream of brown fluid. Urbanisation during the 1800’s had caused factories to be built near the banks of this river. And it was considered disposal device for all the industries muck. Along with help from slums and careless residents, the river Thames became a cesspool of excrement and a breeding ground for diseases such as Cholera. The world’s largest open sewer was one of the most distinguishing factors of urbanisation in London and similar conditions were in river cities other than London. To support my point here is a letter In 1855 where professor Michael Faraday described it. A firsthand account. “The appearance and the smell of the water forced themselves at once on my attention. The whole of the river was an opaque pale brown fluid. . . . The smell was very bad, and common to the whole of the water; it was the same as that which now comes up from the gully-holes in the streets; the whole river was for the time a real