Why was Karl Marx important to the Industrial Revolution?

Karl
Marx was an important figure during the industrial revolution in his anti-capitalist analysis of
industrialization. Marx developed and published anti-capitalist literature that details how
workers are inherently exploited and oppressed under the capitalist system. Additionally, Marx
details how workers are particularly oppressed in the factory system in which working conditions
of the industrial revolution era were often horrendous and abuses by foremen were everyday
occurrences. Marx understood that capitalism, including industrialized capitalism, would always
mean oppression for the working class.

Marx saw industrialism as the next
step of a capitalist system, and also saw the industrial era as the best era for workers to come
together and resist the economic system. Marx believed that workers would develop a sense of
class consciousness under the industrialized capitalist system, and that the conditions of the
factory system would push workers to revolts. As wealth disparities...