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you know like, the right often try to make a gotcha out of things like “the iPhone”, and while on one hand you could try to argue that was developed through state research (which is true), i think Marx at the time of The manifesto at least would have thought that to be missing the point, as (a) the state is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie anyway, and (b) the real point is that the bourgeoisie have utterly proved themselves incapable of properly managing the forces of production that they have developed

like sure contemporary capitalism produced an iphone but it also produced empty houses alongside the homeless. it innovated a new kind of vaccine while proving utterly incapable of distributing it effectively. et cetera

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i know this is like, a really trivial observation, but it is pretty interesting to me that if you read The manifesto you see Marx arguing that the bourgeoisie had been a progressive force in the world

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contains a gun (that is not the point) 

But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence…illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
—Feuerbach, Preference to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity
— as quoted in Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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