Question to Various comments in In Digest 77

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question to Various comments in In Digest 77
by Davies, Daniel

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And whatever else
one thinks about Cohen's work, I think he has to be right that Marx had a
theory of history, and that this theory of history was materialsit and based
on the productive forces.

'course, I never understood dialectics, so I may be talking out of my hole.

^^^^^

CB: Doesn't _The Manifesto of the Communist Party_ make it pretty clear that Marx's theory of history is rooted in the relations of production aspect of the forces of production, the division of labor, and the class struggle ?  History is a history of class struggles, not technological innovations. Since producers are part of the forces of production , it is their development that is in the forces of production that makes history, and historical revolutions.