The irony is that there is an
imperative in the Communist Manifesto “to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible”; but the “revolutionary” means that Marx outlined, especially “despotic inroads on the rights of property and on the conditions of
bourgeois production” (the only effective means of production) are
always detrimental towards that stated goal.
"Anti-capitalist Luddites." Got it. The eco-nutcases in Washington (state) just succeeded in derailing a proposed natural gas to methanol plant to be built in Tacoma, with the product methanol to be exported That is probably the cleanest chemical production process that exists today. But the green weenies weren't having it.