Friday, November 9, 2007

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution


Karl Marx was a German but his ideas changed Russian history. Marx's ideas were known as Communism, a word formed for commom. He was born a Jew, but his father converted the family to Christianity in order to get a job. Marx did not believe in god and thought workers were controlled by religion. He said, "religion is the opiate of the people." Opium is a drug.Marx died in 1883, but his ideas formed the basis of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

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