The thirtieth chapter of 18th and 19th Century Humanities speaks about the global dominion of the west, nineteenth-century social theory, realism in literature, and realism in the visual arts. More specifically, the radical views of Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels, the novels of
Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, and the birth of photography. Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels were lifelong friends who “shared a similar critical attitude in respect of the effects of European industrial capitalism.” (page 285) Marx and Engels authored the Communist Manifesto, which serves as a guidebook demanding the overthrowing of the existing social conditions of that time. The manifesto also called for a revolution by workers to seize instruments of capitalistic
Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, and the birth of photography. Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels were lifelong friends who “shared a similar critical attitude in respect of the effects of European industrial capitalism.” (page 285) Marx and Engels authored the Communist Manifesto, which serves as a guidebook demanding the overthrowing of the existing social conditions of that time. The manifesto also called for a revolution by workers to seize instruments of capitalistic