The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Perry impressed the Japanese by his ships. They were amazed by how his ship had no sail. The Japanese never saw technology like this before. The Meiji Restoration increased industrialization in Japan. This led to a rise in military authority. They wanted to enrich the country &
strengthen the military. Japan observed european countries & observed the way they lived & how they were industrialized.

Karl Marx and Communism

Communism is a system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common. Karl Marx saw that during the Industrial revoultion, people were being worked to the bone & that the bosses of these companies or factories weren't doing anything. He said that people should be treated equally instead of people being below someone else. Karl Marx felt that communism would help the factory workers, by how everyone in government was equal & owned things equally, instead of one main person owning the whole thing to themselves.
Karl Marx wanted communism to take over the world because everyone in the world be equal.Karl Marx saw the workers as good guys because he felt that they were doing what they were suppose tio be doing, but at some point they should have took up for themselves. He felt that the bosses of the factories were bad guys because they didn't do anything, they just told the workers what to do &put themin very hard work conditions.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

The way Karl Marx felt about the Industrial Revolution was that it was bad. He didn't like the way the factory workers were being treated, because European factories were very harsh & an unsafe place. He argued that workers should control the factories & farms, rather than their landlords.

The Industrial Revolution inspired Marx to create Communism by how he wanted the workers of the world to unite & form a worldwide revolution. The workers would share wealth in the communist society. He said that wealth should be distributed according to his abilities & his needs. He believed that workers could control government.