Industrial capitalism stripped all English workers of beauty, festivity, and community

Evidence

[I]f we are considering the kind of social life that was created by the Industrial Revolution, we find that in one sense no class of work-people escaped the Industrial Revolution. For all workers alike there was the same want of beauty, the same want of playing fields or parks, the same want of pageants or festivals, the same speeding up of industry, the same absence of anything calculated to create what Sophocles called “the temper that buildeth a city’s wall” … the ugliness of the new life, with its growing slums, its lack of beautiful buildings, its destruction of nature and its disregard of man’s deeper needs, affected not this or that class of workers only, but the entire working-class population. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 230

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Parallels the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s attention to festival and communal ritual as integral to social life; this documents what industrial capitalism destroyed of those rituals.