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Karl Marx

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Karl Marx

Technology

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Karl Marx is saying that capitalism advances technology and organizes different production steps into a connected system, but it does this by exhausting the natural environment and exploiting workers. In other words, the growth of technology under capitalism depends on depleting the land and wearing out laborers, who are the true foundations of wealth.

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