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It didn't. Imperialism and capitalism had been around for centuries before industrialisation.
They saw it as a disease caused by capitalism
Adam Smith
The conflict theory explains capitalism, and how capitalism will eventually be demolished by the rise of the working class (causing tension/conflict)
Adam Smith
religion
Pollution and social inequality
changes in religion
...rise of capitalism.
. the belief that heaven was a myth and there was no hereafter
j. stalin has written: 'rise of the soviets and the decline of capitalism'
There are many reasons for this, but the primary reason is that in spite of it's brutality and repressiveness, capitalism does make people more sophisticated, more well rounded, more subtle creatures. Capitalism created the necessary prerequisites in people for them to start to think in such ways as to facilitate the rise of more humanistic philosophies.