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From: "John Jackson" <jj@nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: rationality
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:38:11 +1100
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"Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> "Greymaus" wrote:
>
>> I admire Marx, but his ideas would rapidly collapse in the face of rapid
>> technical change as we have at the moment.
>
> If the government tells the workers to produce 300 million pairs of wooden 
> shoes next year,

That was never what Marx proposed or predicted would happen.

> that is what they will produce.  What rapid technical change?

The one that made communism completely irrelevant.