As your teacher, I do want to make sure you guys understand where are discussion is going. I have offered you a new perspective--the Marxist, negative view.
With that said, make sure you know there are major problems with this view as well. Instead of hopping on the negative bandwagon against our traditional view, let's slap some negativism on the idea presented in class.
Let me start--without the Second Industrial Revolution, Pasteur, Jenner, Lister, and other medical scientists would never had expanded our culture.
The Second Industrial Revolution created the infrastructure for our new internet age, an age of easy access information. New modes of discussion with people from other cultures.
The Second Industrial Revolution allowed for the increase social mobility, freeing us from any caste system, especially the one Marx indirectly proposed.
Others? Criticism for my ideas?