Definition: Karl Marx and Socialism (scroll down for answer)       Definition: Karl Marx and Socialism During the Industrial Revolution, people were suffering from hard work and an increasing gap between the rich and the poor. Germans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto in 1848 to protest this gap. They encouraged the lower class, the proletariat, to rise up and eliminate all distinctions of classes. Marx favored a classless society. Click here for next flash card.      Back to eFlashcard headquarters