False, Karl Marx himself says that technology improves wealth for all the masses and doesn't leave people destitute.
Edit: I was wrong. Marx makes both claims because his theory is just not that great.
False, Karl Marx himself says that technology improves wealth for all the masses and doesn't leave people destitute.
Edit: I was wrong. Marx makes both claims because his theory is just not that great.
He also wrote literally the opposite to what you put in his mouth, so not only is this an appeal to authority, it's a completely incorrect one. Wonderful.
> It is an undoubted fact that machinery, as such, is not responsible for “setting free” the workman from the means of subsistence [...] in itself it increases the wealth of the producers, but in the hands of capital, makes them paupers
[1]https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm
Do you know the phrase: fully automated luxury communism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_Automated_Luxury_Communi...