Reply #15: Your citations don't back up your claims for them

[muriel_volestrangler]

The first does not address technology - it just addresses surplus capital. Advances in technology mean that goods are produced more cheaply, which, with competition, reduces their price - thus benefiting the masses. Marxism may address this somewhere, but not in your quotes. Your first quote is about globalisation.

Your claims that Marx defines technology, the processes of Peak Oil and global warming are quite funny - I'm surprised you didn't claim he invented roller skates too. There's nothing in your quotes about finite extractable resources, or feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere; it's just "fertility of the soil", a specific problem, and ownership of land and mineral rights - not in terms of what this means for the long term availability of resources, but in philosophical terms of what it means for humanity's perception of itself. If those are the best quotes you can find from Marxism on the subject of technology, I'm deeply disappointed - I had more respect for him than that.

The vital point about technology is that knowledge of more efficient processes and tools advances, and can be spread and kept alive with very little effort, if the holders of the knowledge are either willing or forced to. This has a profound effect on capitalism, but is completely unaddressed in your citations.