Read this excerpt from Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England. Every great city has one or more slums, where the working-class is crowded together. . . . The streets are generally unpaved, rough, dirty, filled with vegetable and animal refuse [trash], without sewers or gutters, but supplied with foul, stagnant pools instead. Which point does Engels make in this passage?

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Answer: Industrialization has created poor living conditions.

Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman. He is known for founding Marxist theory together with Karl Marx. He also co-authored The Communist Manifesto.

Engels was extremely critical of industralization and capitalism, and in this excerpt he illustrates why that is the case. He believes that industrialization has caused enormous problems for the population, in particular poor workers.

Answer: Industrialization has created poor living conditions.

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