"In Marx’s time one could think of the workers’ taking over the factories and mines and railroads and shipyards [...] Such a possibility is today excluded on purely technical grounds. The proletarians could not, by themselves, run the productive machine of contemporary society"
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They tried that in early USSR, kicked out all the foreign factory owners and managers in 1918-1919. It was a catastrophe. Output cratered, equipment broke down, competent workers left. Eventually they had to invite the foreigners back to manage (not own, oh no) their erstwhile >>
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properties. And the joke is the foreign suckers took the concessions, so as to have something rather than nothing at all. The Soviets used them to set things up back again, train more people, and kicked them out once more.
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I love how you people just invent things Marx is supposed to have said
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