...famously captured by Marx and Engels: "The Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation,...telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers ... what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces...

...continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? (Marx and Engels, 1848) Why, according to Marx, is capitalism such an immensely productive...

...have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation,...such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor? We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built...

...have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation,...such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor? Technology was the genius of the rising capitalist class. The bourgeoisie would continue to...

...of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steamnavigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing whole continents for cultivation, canalization of...such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? (Marx and Engels, 1848, pp. 39-40) Far from considering that colonialism hindered the process...

...have all preceding generations together. Subjection of nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation,...canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the...

...more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together . . . what earlier century had even a presentiment that...such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor? (Marx 1988, 59) Similar sentiments for political expression come out of the different traditions...

...Lord. As a couple of acute observers, Marx and Engels, put it when all this was getting under way, "What earlier century had even a presentiment that...such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?" Possibly modern economic growth is as large and important an event in human history as the...

...railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers . . . what earlier century had even a presentiment that...such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? (Tucker 1972:339) But alienation and rising productivity per capita do not encompass all the...

...continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the groundwhat earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built...