Capitalism in the mid-19th century, as Marx and Engels saw it, could never have succeeded with the social stratification that was the bourgeois and the proletariat. The proletariat’s struggles with the bourgeois began the moment the two classes came into form. Masses of people once finding subsistence through individual skills and crafts are turned into drones run by the bells and clocks of factories. Toiling for hours on end produced goods in massive quantities, but this would be the downfall of capitalism, according to Marx and Engels. The incredible rate of industrialization and mechanization that occurred throughout the early 1800’s would ultimately lead to the destruction of capitalism via overproduction. The bourgeois’ insatiable pursuit
