In this quote from the "Communist Manifesto," Karl Marx is criticizing the conditions of the working class during the Industrial Revolution. He highlights their exploitation and dehumanization by the capitalist system, particularly focusing on how workers (the proletariat) are subjected not only to the control of the bourgeoisie (the capitalist class) but also to the oppressive mechanisms of industrial production, such as machinery and factory overseers. This criticism underscores the alienation and subjugation of workers in a rapidly industrializing society, where they are treated as mere tools in the production process rather than as human beings with rights and dignity.
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 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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