Which of the following demonstrates Karl Marx's conviction that social inequality would continue to grow?
A) "No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished with a sort of convulsive self-importance."
B) "The modern laborer . . . instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth."
C) "A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, i.e., things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite in one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them."
D) "For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men."

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Marx believed that social inequality would continue to grow because the modern laborer would continue to sink deeper into poverty as a result of industrialization. This is expressed in option B. The other options do not relate specifically to Marx's views on social inequality.

Which of the Following Demonstrates Karl Marx's Conviction That Social