• Hot SaucermanOP
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    810 months ago

    He also didn’t predict a class of people born with no labor to sell because so much of it has been automated away. How are they supposed to use their labor as a bargaining chip if they can’t find labor to do to begin with?

    • @socsa@lemmy.ml
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      510 months ago

      Actually I think that’s kind of exactly what he predicted. Technological determinism would inevitably manifest the violent downfall of capitalism.

      • @onkyo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        410 months ago

        Marx wasn’t a technological determinist though. He believed that a workers revolution would bring the end of capitalism. He even thought it would happen druing his lifetime.