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Thread #96718   Message #1901612
Posted By: Les in Chorlton
06-Dec-06 - 12:39 PM
Thread Name: 'Soviet Russia' red herring?
Subject: RE: 'Soviet Russia' red herring?
People didn't move from gathering and hunting to farming or from fuedalism to capitalism because they got a new idea, they moved because planting wheat creates a hell of a lot of food. Later coal, steel and steam made industrialisation inevitable.

Marx thought Socialism inevitable, but what will the means of production be like?