The Meiji Restoration of Japan

Mathew Perry went in with several gun ships to force the Japanese trade and then without a fight they gave in. But the Japanese where impressed by the technology that the Americans. they had liked the guns and the ships. the economy had change when the Meiji era arrived. they started trading with other countries and making the uses of their resources.

Karl Marx and Communism

Karl Marx idea of communism was that the workers would rule the giant companies because the big time bosses (bourgeoisie) were screwing the workers (proletariat) over with little pay and long hours. so he wanted a community were every body gets paid the same way as any body else does. Karl Marx wanted communism to be don all over the world because he thought that it make the world a little more fair in the eyes of the workers. he thought that the good guys were the workers and the bad guys were the big time bosses. he thought that because he realized that the workers were being played and he saw ahead of his time what the industrial revolution would do.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx felt that industrial revolution was cruel to the workers and the factory owners didn't treat the workers with respect and they didn't give them enough time to take a break and eat for lunch. he was inspired by the industrial revolution to unite the workers together. and he had this idea that all the workers would share their wealth in a common community, and "they should be distributed by his abilities and needs."