>>8245Your brain on ideology. They act like women weren't doing the same thing since ancient times. The only change is that their looms were taken away. They were crammed into sweatshops, regularly taken by the bourgeois for sadistic sex games, and told how good they have it and how "liberated" they are. Back then, the women did not agree.
In any event, the "revolution" didn't happen in this productivist manner that Fabians invented when rewriting history. The real change wasn't the quantity of product but what was produced. 19th century capitalism produced new machines, different types of machines. Its chief aim was a total war to dispossess the workers, to strip them of the few things they had left. The result of the factories was slavery, and if you actually read Capital vol. 1 Marx describes (in artfully dodgy language) what happened, to paper over what Sismondi described as Modern Slavery, which is what the contracts of wage workers were when they are forced to sign these with a knife at their throat and pimps ready to take their wife and children if they didn't agree to this. That is capitalism, you fucktard. That is your "revolution".
Even then, you didn't see mechanization until you had working steam engines, oil, and electricity. The American Civil War and its aftermath was the actual "industrial revolution" but that is something Marx was tasked with editing out of history, in defense of the slave power. When the post-Civil War industrialization happened, it was done by monopolists who had a very clear idea of what they wanted the future to be, and they built all of this industry and technology to pursue that aim. They weren't "mindless producers" and certainly were not your friends.
Also remind you that in monetary wealth and claims, the masses were always destitute. There is this funny game ideologues play where the peasant was a "noble savage" corrupted by civilization. It's straight out of Hitlerism and this thinking has wide adoption among the Left. What the masses lost with captialism were the few scraps the old institutions gave them. They were allowed to pray still, and their intelligence was not actively attacked by mass propaganda and "revolution". The peasant owned nothing particularly valuable and expected nothing in his lot to change. He was already "dead" in the mind of the petty-manager. Capitalism merely made that official.
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