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Every empirical prediction Marx made, failed. The societies based on his teachings led to the greatest human tragedies in the history of mankind. Marx's only re

• cutler 5y ago
  Marx predicted that capital could never be satisfied and was compelled to seek new sources of surplus value in the process of which labour itself would become surplus value and that wages would be consequently be driven down. What we are witnessing right now is the ever-increasing concentration of capital in technology designed to put human beings out of work. The capitalist's dream is a production line which doesn't require human beings at all. Once the stuff of fiction, we're now bearing witness to it in our lifetime. The gig economy is part of the same scenario Marx foresaw which the government euphemistically terms the flexible workforce.
  • hpoe 5y ago
    Except Marx was wrong for most of the time after he predicted this as there was a steady rise in wages during most of the 20th century. Further Marx predicted that the first nations to fall to communism would be the most capitalist ones, but in fact the opposite occurred and the least capitalist countries fell to communism, meanwhile the capitalist countries have not. That's just one example there are plenty of other others that can be provided, from how is theory of dialectical materialism was wrong on all counts when it came to any scientific power, to history. In fact the most impressive part of Marx is how truly wrong he managed to be without actually being original as the majority of his work is derivative from Hiegel.