Karl Marx was born in a time of contradiction. Capitalism was becoming the economic basis for society. The Industrial Revolution pushed people out of a life of agriculture in which they had decided how to do their work, into factories where they produced as much as possible in a certain amount of time each day. This was the time of the greatest rise in manufacturing and good, and also a time with the greatest rise in a poor population. Marx explored this phenomenon and drew conclusions about it. He used the methods of materialism and dialectics. …
