Foreshadowing the future of our society is one of the most predominate things that H.G. Wells does in The Time Machine. Class struggles are nothing new in our society, Wells gives us and idea of what the future may hold, and follows the possible route of evolution using the past as its guide. It is shown that class struggles are nothing new in society and have existed from as far back as The Romans. Sociologist Karl Marx, who coined the term "communism", lived around the same time as Wells and his ideas are shared close in comparison with those of The Time Traveller, the novels main character. Marx and his future "idea-sharers" known as "Neo-Marxist" believed that history is actually a series of class struggles between the Capitalists and the Labourers. The Time Traveller finds a connection between the class in the future and in his Victorian Time. "At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalists and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position" (Wells, 52). The two groups described in The Time Traveller are the Eloi and the Morklocks resemble these two groups to the extreme. And the novels theme is giving the reader an idea of what the future may hold. This is one of the reasons that this novel is an immortal one and is basically timeless. In the novel, the Eloi live above ground and the Morklocks live under the ground. This idea may come from the idea of mining, which was a huge industry in the 1800's and early 1900's. Miners, part of the lower-to-middle class, are almost like the Morlocks in many ways when they are at work. They become dirty and darker because of the work, just the Morlocks do, and don't receive susceptible ventilation while under the ground. The Morlocks, as The Time Traveller notes, have adjusted to life underground.