Marx and Engels: European Industrial Revolution Accelerated History
As a preliminary matter, in order to understand Marxist theory’s critique of Liberalism, it is absolutely necessary to understand the concept of class conflict. This is because Marxist theory relies on this notion of class conflict as a theoretical point of departure without which further theoretical developments would simply become impossible. Early on in The Communist Manifesto, introducing the Proletariat and the Bourgeois, Marx emphatically declares that "the history of all hitherto...
