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XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

And those looms inspired Chuck Babbage to build the Difference Engine, which was at the 1862 World’s Fair. Years before Marx started writing Capital.

So again, when you say these machines are inconceivable to Marx…

"you keep using that word."

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Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Blah blah blah

The difference engine was never built by Babbage.

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- XLE@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What was at the 1862 World Fair then? That pesky word you used…
  
  Your beliefs rest on
  
  This clearly conceived thing not being conceived
  
  An implied assertion Marx wouldn’t be aware of specific large events
  
  If you could prove either, I guess you’d be in the clear, but for some reason you’re insisting upon both.
  
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