The Organization Of Labour By Karl Marx Communist Manifesto By Louis Blanc

Between the four authors, the universal belief about Industrialism is that the benefits of it greatly outweigh the negatives effects. The main theme of each document is that factory workers deserve more rights than they already have. For example, the Lowell Mill Girls document ponders on how the women working in the factory rose up and demanded more pay for their work, since they were being paid so little, that the boss would pocket the money that should’ve been paid to them. This idea is much like Karl Marx Communist Manifesto, where he believes everyone should be equal and paid the same. The Organization of Labour is a socialist document written by Louis Blanc that wants the government to regulate who gets a job. Close to the beliefs

“In the industrial world in which we live, all the discoveries of science are a calamity, first because the machines supplant the laborers who need work to live, and then, because they are also murderous weapons, furnished to industry which has the right and faculty to use them against all those who have not this right and power. What does ‘new machines’ mean in the system of competition? It means monopoly; we have proven it. (Blanc 1840)” Blanc believes that the new technological discoveries will take jobs away from the people. Therefore, it is the governments job to make new technology that does not take jobs away, but makes current jobs easier to increase the means of production. The comparison of machines to “murderous weapons” refers to how the factory workers live after they lose their jobs. No income means no food or shelter, resulting in death. Government regulating jobs is not the full extent of Blanc’s beliefs. “For the first years after the workshops are established, the government ought to regulate the scale of employment. After the first year it is no longer necessary, the laborers would then have time enough to truly estimate their respective work, and, all being equally interested as we will soon see, the success of the association would eventually depend on the elective principle.... (Blanc 1840)” Blanc believes a

According to Marx, the class system is the main problem of the world. “Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: It has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other bourgeoisie and proletariat. (Marx 1848)” The bourgeois is the class the controls production, is rich, and is made up of the upper and middle class. The proletarians are the factory workers only. Because of these class systems, there will be a constant overthrowing of government as there is no equality. The end goal of Marx’s argument is to have everyone be equal. The ones who produce should be in control of production, much like Blanc’s social workshops, and that everyone will be a worker. In this society, there is no free-time. People will spend their time working. This goes against Ure’s belief of less labor hours. Leisure, according to Ure, is necessary to reduce stress on the body. Constant work will lead to the degradation of a working human being until they refuse or cannot