@TruthSandwich @vidar @futurebird Marx was spot on with his critique of capitalism, but completely off the board with his theory of history. He thought you could predict social evolution when it is a chaotic system that can be blown one way or the other by random events. For example, feudalism was doomed by the Black Plague and the increased value of labor that came from depopulation, but aMarx posited that it was an inevitable step in social evolution.