Read the following quote by Karl Marx from the Communist Manifesto. Which event is he criticizing? “Not only are they the slaves of the bourgeoisie class, and of the bourgeois State, they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.”

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Read the following quote by Karl Marx from the Communist Manifesto. Which event is he criticizing? “Not only are they the slaves of the bourgeoisie class, and of the bourgeois State, they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the over-looker, and above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.” 
the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and the United States 
the founding of New Harmony, Indiana by Robert Owens 
 the Russian Revolution
the kibbutz movement in Israel

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Karl Marx is criticizing the **Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and the United States** in the quote. He highlights the exploitation of the working class (the proletariat) by the bourgeoisie, as well as the dehumanizing effects of industrial machinery and capitalist production processes, which were central issues during the Industrial Revolution.