Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Evidence of Experiencing Industrialization

The first reading was horrible in the way that the business owner treated their fellow man in a way I see that people were enslaved in working as well. The Testimony, by Elizabeth Bentley shows that she had to wake up early everyday and left to go home extremely late. The people during this time did not have a lot of time for sleeping. In a sense when the feudal system went down the rich still kipped their power by having the peasants do the cheap work. In my opinion the world did not progress for the poor it was the same or maybe worst. I cannot imagine little kids working in industrial setting at the age of six she was suppose to be in school during this time not working. I was also proud of Ms. Bentley because she was self-taught and wrote many primary sources of the Industrial Revolution. Another, very interesting document that I read about was that of Karl Marx, which was the father of communism I have to say that I didn't know that this person created communism. I always thought that communism was a thing that the Russians started. The thing that  me the most was that he was from a wealthy family. I think that any time that I see communism I immediately say this is a bad idea. The things that were happing during this time period caused somebody to make all these ideas because nobody was protecting them. The one things that I really liked in The communist Manifesto in number ten of his reform that all children should get free education. Now I know why Republicans say free education is a communist believe because Marx states it in his work. The other thing that I also noticed was that Marx had a helper in developing this thing Friedrich Engels was helping him write this. Mr. Engels should receive some created for his master piece not just Marx.

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