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AP European History 1.2 Period 3: 1815-1914. Due to their focus on the hardships endured by the working class, Marxists believed that human behavior would change for the better with the end of which of the following?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by mechanization which

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despite how cool it sounds is unfortunately just the integration of [Machine operating]

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machinery into labor processes..we were really hoping for humans becoming

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part robot in order to battle super villains and save humanity once and for [Man becomes half robot]

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all let's try and swallow our disappointment and take a look at this

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passage the Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They

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openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow

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of all existing social conditions Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic

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revolution the proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains, they have a

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world to win working men of all countries unite! Yeah okay here's a

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question due to their focus on the hardships endured by the working class

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Marxists believe that human behavior would change for the better with the end

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of which of the following and here are your potential answers well it's true our boy

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Karl love to focus on hardships and struggles you can kind of compare him to [Young boys pushing an object]

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that one friend who always has something to complain about you know

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like how the starbucks barista totally didn't use skim milk or how their [friend moaning]

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brand-new iphone is too big to fit in their pocket but instead of that it's

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more like how capitalism brought about struggles and tension between the [People fighting in a street]

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classes we're still trying to figure out which one would be more annoying to

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spend an entire day with so what did Marx think needed to end before this

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struggle could well while Marx did believe that religion suppressed people

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he didn't think this was the root of the class struggle so A) doesn't fit the bill [Tree roots in the ground]

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but don't let anyone tell you the class struggle isn't real you try staying

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awake in an 8am history of rice pudding course we put in a good effort but we [Boy falling asleep in class and a glass of rice pudding appears]

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just couldn't rice to the occasion - Well Marx believed that the struggle

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of the property owners and the workers was directly linked to war he didn't

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believe that ending war would end the struggle he actually believed that war [Army soldier with a gun]

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was a result of that tension and that ending the tension would put an end to

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the war and Marx through that mechanization aka the introduction of

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machinery into labor processes actually made labor harder on the working class [People working hard in a factory]

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which while an interesting theory might be disagreed with by a few

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farmers we know which leaves us with D) Marx's emphasis was on capitalism and he

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believed that the basic fight between the two classes was the fight over

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property. Marx thought that by replacing private ownership with communal [Hand replaces private ownership for communal ownership]

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ownership life would have less conflict overall though we're pretty sure life

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would have less conflict if humans became crime fighting half robot just [Man with a robot body appears]

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a thought...

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