Owen was a capitalist and social reformer. He gained influence as a supporter of the humane treatment of industrial workers. He was also a critic of child labour, and he also co-founded the labour’s cooperative movement. Karl Marx said that workers world rebel against the owners of the factories and take over the economy and the government themselves. In the 1900s Marx's ideas influenced many Communist governments. Marx also disapproved of religion. Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848. In Marx's Manifesto he said that North America and Europe would collapse, economically and socially. He also told other workers to join his movement. Marx thought that capitalism would help start a revolution. Producing more product would lead to overproduction
