Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was best known as a 19th century revolutionary. Karl Marx felt that the Industrial Revolution allowed the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer. The industrial revolution inspired Marx to invent communism because he thought the working class was doomed to forever work for low wages.KARl Marx feels that differences of age and sex have no longer any distinctive social validity for the working class.The industrial revolution inspired Marx to invent communism because he thought the working class was doomed to forever work for low wages. He believed that since there were more workers than owners, the workers would eventually get fed up, start a revolution and take over.