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INDIVIDUALISM AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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some ingenious individuals, almost without any savings and capital, began
to organize surving paupers for production, not in factories but outside
the factories, and not for the upper classes only. These newly organized
producers began to make simple goods precisely for the great masses.
This was the great change that took place; this was the Industrial
Revolution. And this Industrial Revolution made more food and other
goods available so that the population rose. Nobody saw less of what
really was going on than Karl Marx. By the eve of the Second World
War, the population had increased so much that there were 60
nnllion En^^ishmen.
You can't compare the United States with England. The United
States began almost as a country of modern capitaUsm. But we may
*.iy by and large that out of eight people living today in the countries
«)f Western civilization, seven are alive only because of the Industrial
Revolution. Are you personally sure that you are the one out of
right who would have lived even in the absence of the Industrial
Revolution? If you are not sure, stop and consider the consequences of
the Industrial Revolution.
The interpretation given by Marx to the Industrial Revolution is
..pphed also to the interpretation of the "superstructure." Marx said the
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material productive forces," the tools and machmes, produce the
-production relations." the social structure, property rights, and so forth,
which produce the "superstructure," the philosophy, art, and rehgion^
Ihe "superstructure." said Marx, depends on the class situation of
the individuals, i.e.. whether he is a poet, painter, and so on. Marx
interpreted everything that happened in the spiritual life of the nation
fa>m this point of view Arthur Schopenhauer [1788-1860] was called
a philosopher of the owners of common stock and bonds. Fnedrich
Nietzsche 11844-19(M)1 was called the philosopher of big business. For
every change m ideology, for every change in music, art, novel writing^
play writing, the Marxians had an immediate interpretation. Every new
book .'as explained by the "superstructure" of that P--^^^^^",^;^^^
book was assigned an adjective-"bourgeois" or proletarian. The
^n^^ie were considered an undifferentiated ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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