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Why Was Marxism A Minority Ideology Amongst The European Working Class? The 19th century was a period of social development unrivalled in the changes it brought about. The Industrial Revolution was the fundamental basis of this, not only inflating the economy and making the rich far richer, but enlarging the mercantile classes, and creating a vast working class (proletariat). It was this last group, the proletariat, that were, towards the mid to late 1800's, of political and economic importance, not only due to their crucial role in the industrial process and therefore the economy, but because of their sheer size and potential volatility. Geary identifies three major factors as being crucial to the formation and success of national labour movements: (1) The structure and composition of the work force (2) The nature of the State (3) The availability to workers of alternative, radical ideologies. However, of all the political movements that...

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