Marxism Part 1 Marxism is a theory of sociology. This theory was made by Karl Marx in the 1800’s during the industrialisation era. What led him to come up with this theory was, when he saw a significant shift in the society that happened due to the invention of machinery, this invention had caused a radical change on how the economy operated, therefore social revolution. It created social classes that were not there in the first place. There were two distinct classes existed during that time that led to the division of labour, the bourgeoisie; who owns the resources, and the proletariat; who works for the bourgeoisie (who owns the means of productions; factories, businesses or shops). The proletariat were controlled by the bourgeoisie, in terms of working hours, what they do under which conditions and even to the point if there were allow to work or not. They get paid little and while the owner gained a wide margin of profit. Marx saw inequality in this society’s structure, the workers were exploited by the owner whose main priority was to increase financial return. Marx believed that this would cause class conflict, the bourgeoisie would want to shrink the wages of labour as much as possible while the proletariat wants a higher pay.