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In Engels The Condition of the Working Class in England explores and argues an idea similarly. Engels argues that the development of production on the foundation of the capitalistic system has of itself served to do away with all uprising minor grievances, which provoked the proletarian's outcome during its earlier stages. .
"Thus the development of production on the basis of the capitalistic system has of itself sufficed - at least in the leading industries, for in the more unimportant branches this is far from being the case - to do away with all those minor grievances which aggravated the workman's fate during its earlier stages. And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working-class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself." (Engels, p36).
Engels describes, so vividly, the raw firsthand experiences that confronted him as a younger boy. The Industrial Revolution is a period in which there is a surplus of workers qualified to perform the demand, and when said workers are not permitted to form unions, which places them at the leniency of the owners. Engels describes the level at which the children are especially demoralized. Children of elementary school age or older are enforced to work at least twelve hours a day, and could possibly face flogging or other forms of abuse while on the job. From the picture of misery and class persecution that he draws for readers in England in the 1840's, he concludes that a proletarian revolution was necessary, which Marx coincidentally agrees. .
Because of the way the proletarians are treated, Marx and Engels see that the conditions will not last much longer. Marx and Engels stood firm in their belief that the main theme of industrial capitalism was freedom. They wanted the proletarians to have the freedom to become a complete human being by recreating oneself through free choices.