“A spectator is haunting Europe”, the opening line of The Communist Manifesto (or The Manifesto).
We can try and argue over Marxist ideology. I really would rather not. What is painfully obvious, however, is that he and Engels predicted how the capitalist means of production would spread. The prediction of technological advancement should also be pointed out here. While those things are “not bad”. Other predictions, that were less positive, came about. For example, the reduction of things like ‘moral principles’ to commodities, making them up for exchange for financial gain in a capitalist society, is just one such example.
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