The Stone Breakers (1849) by Gustave Courbet, was a painting done with direct parallels to the ideas shared in the Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto directly criticized the exploitation that capitalism does, and in this painting there is a young man and old man doth breaking stones with their tool, but the caveat being that this labor is too much of a physical burden for these unfit people, thus exploitative.  

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