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well communism was largely based on the work of karl marx, who lived in england ( among other places ), and was witness to the horrors that were brought about on the working class by the industrial revolution.
marx believed that prior to the industrial revolution, although the workers were certainly poor, they were at least connected to their work, which consisted largely of growing food, etc. However, after the industrial revolution the workers were no longer tied to the things that they produced and, therefore, were not able to see any benefit to their work. Furthermore, the influx of people into cities to find work produced a surplus of workers which allowed those with capital to exploit the workers. Working conditions were terrible and practically no labor laws were in place at the time.
Marx witnessed this and theorized that the people would continually be divided into two groups, those with capital and those without. The industrial revolution would speed the process along and eventually practically everyone would be a person without capital who would be ruled by those who owned everything. After this process went too far the people would rebel, and the workers would seize power and institute a state run by the workers for the workers where everyone would receive equal pay and there would be no exploitation.
Thus the industrial revolution is directly linked to communism not only in production of the idea, but also in creating an economic situation in which people would believe in the communist system and try to adopt it.
Communism is a market system where government controls what gets produced, who it is distributed to, and how much to produce. If you are referring to the US Industrial Revolution, then I would say with the failing of the Russion communist system, the US market was booming thus pushing the major innovations in techonology produced through technology during the Industrial Revolution. Just my best guess.....
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