09-12-2012, 04:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2012, 04:49 AM by FireIceTalon.)
It isn't the machinery itself he is detesting, but rather the ownership of said machinery.
Marx was actually very fascinated by Capitalism, for all his critique of it, and if he truly disapproved of technological advancement, it would go without saying he would have preferred society to stay stagnant in the feudal era - but of course he didn't, and he regarded Capitalism as a historical triumph over the previous order. Capitalism was necessary from his view, to create the material conditions for Socialism. Marx was a humanist, and thus a Communist, which is in part where his critiques of Capitalism stem from. But yes, it would be pretty inaccurate to say he didn't favor the advancement of technology. That, and every Marxist worth his salt today is all for the advancement of technology also, I have never met one that isn't. What we deplore is the exploitation of one class and segment of society by another.
Marx was actually very fascinated by Capitalism, for all his critique of it, and if he truly disapproved of technological advancement, it would go without saying he would have preferred society to stay stagnant in the feudal era - but of course he didn't, and he regarded Capitalism as a historical triumph over the previous order. Capitalism was necessary from his view, to create the material conditions for Socialism. Marx was a humanist, and thus a Communist, which is in part where his critiques of Capitalism stem from. But yes, it would be pretty inaccurate to say he didn't favor the advancement of technology. That, and every Marxist worth his salt today is all for the advancement of technology also, I have never met one that isn't. What we deplore is the exploitation of one class and segment of society by another.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)