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**illerlytoindy** · 01-18-2009, 08:39 PM

The real question is whether distribution and marketing ought to be simply folded into the definition of "means of production," regardless of whether Marx did so.

He didn't really, and that's one of his major mistakes.

He thought that as the efficiency of factories would increase, so would the size of a disenfranchised unemployed proletariat. He just didn't realize that most people would end up selling services, and that their living conditions could be decent.

01-18-2009, 08:39 PM	#7
illerlytoindy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 468 Senior Member	The real question is whether distribution and marketing ought to be simply folded into the definition of "means of production," regardless of whether Marx did so. He didn't really, and that's one of his major mistakes. He thought that as the efficiency of factories would increase, so would the size of a disenfranchised unemployed proletariat. He just didn't realize that most people would end up selling services, and that their living conditions could be decent.
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