09-12-2012, 05:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2012, 06:03 AM by FireIceTalon.)
You are way over-simplifying the argument for your purposes. Marx was NOT against technological advancement. End of story.
We still have many impoverished workers in the world today, in Capitalism, just as we did in the 19th century - because capital exploits labor. So essentially, he was right regardless of his views on technology. Yes, working conditions and wages are better now than back then, but that has nothing to do with Capitalism getting better or becoming a more humane system (because rest assured, it isn't), and everything to do with the formation of Unions, social and labor movements, struggles, and yes, technological advances.
We still have many impoverished workers in the world today, in Capitalism, just as we did in the 19th century - because capital exploits labor. So essentially, he was right regardless of his views on technology. Yes, working conditions and wages are better now than back then, but that has nothing to do with Capitalism getting better or becoming a more humane system (because rest assured, it isn't), and everything to do with the formation of Unions, social and labor movements, struggles, and yes, technological advances.
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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)