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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.