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That's not really what Marxism is about. Marxism is about the workers taking over the one big factory from its owners, not about someone inventing an efficient cheap small-scale factory so that all the workers go home and become small businessmen.

Democratisation isn't really the right word either, of course. It's more like the Industrial Revolution in reverse -- increasing technology shifts production back from huge centralized facilities to one-man operations.



Reverting to a cottage industry.




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