The condition of the working class in England 01

This blog category aims to convey the ideas of Marx and Engels as clearly as possible without using technical terms.We also declare that we will resist the elaborate attacks on Marx and Engels that have been launched in large numbers on the Internet and in magazines.

”Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in Great Britain”（2000/Shinnihon Shuppansha）

*In Japan, England is mostly translated as Great Britain.

Young Engels was ordered by his father to work at a factory in Manchester.
Britain is the birthplace of the industrial revolution.
Engels went to Manchester and was surprised.
There, the workers were suffering and groaning in severe poverty.
Engels surveyed the town every day and wrote this treatise.
He spent countless pages reporting on the reality of poverty among working people in England.
The extremely tragic reality is described as if it were a picture of hell.
At that time, there were no books in England that dealt with such facts.
"If I don't record it, this tragic reality will remain hidden from the public's attention. This is a fact that capitalists don't want to talk about."
Before the introduction of machines, people worked in their own homes. They lived a leisurely life, interacting with their surroundings. They could work when they wanted and rest when they wanted. There was no competition and they were not overworked.
However, the Industrial Revolution turned workers into machines. And machines have taken away their independence.

Engels explains in detail how machines were introduced to England. By the way, in Japan's compulsory education textbooks, there is less than one page of description of the Industrial Revolution.

Just as there are those who attack such things as "there was no Japanese war of aggression", there are those who still eagerly attack Engels' writings, which were written over a hundred years ago, saying "such poor labor never existed". However, Engels also included detailed numbers, distances, proper nouns, and quotations from newspapers and official documents of the time in his book.

Right: Map of Manchester

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