Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was a German-Jew who's ideas made a difference in Russia. His ideas were known as Communism. He thought that workers should control the factories instead of the landlords. Also he did not like the harsh and bad treatment/conditions that workers worked in and he thought they should stand up for themselves and unite.
Marx wrote that wealth should be distributed "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Even though Karl Marx died in 1833, this ideals spread. Marx's theory was the Marxist Dialectic, and believed that change would come through revolution. He wanted social change but they did not have the power. Karl Marx was a major influence on workers movements.