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and rhar of sbvcs and serfs was o^nly that the cap.tahst had no obi gat on
to care for workers who were no longer exploitable, wh.le the iTrd
was bound to care for slaves and serfs. This is another of the insoluble
contradictions ,n the Marxian system. Yet it is accepted by many
rconomms today without realizing of what this contradiction consists
According to Marx, capitalism is a necessary and inevitable stage in
the history of mankind leading men from primitive conditions to the
inillennium of socialism. If capitalism is a necessary and mevitable step on
the road to socialism, then one cannot consistently claim, from the point
of view of Marx, that what the capitalist does is ethically and morally
bad. Therefore, why does Marx attack the capitalists?
Marx says part of production is appropriated by the capitalists and
withheld from the workers. According to Marx, this is very bad. The
I onscquence is that the workers are no longer in a position to consume
the whole production produced. A part of what they have produced,
therefore, remains unconsumed; there is "underconsumption." For this
reason, because there is underconsumption, economic depressions occur
regularly. This is the Marxian underconsumption theory of depressions.
Yet Marx contradicts this theory elsewhere.
Marxian writers do not explain why production proceeds from
simpler to more and more complicated methods.
Nor did Marx mention the following fact: About 1700, the
population of (Ircat Britain was about five and a half million; by the
middle of the 17(M)s. the population was six and a half million, about
.S(K),(MH) of whom were simply destitute. The whole economic system
had produced a "surplus" population. The surplus population problem
appeared earlier in Great Britain than in continental Europe. This
happened, first of all. because Great Britain was an island and so was not
subject to invasion by foreign armies, which helped to reduce the popu-
lations in Europe. The wars in Great Britain were civil wars, which were
bad. but they stopped. And then this outlet for the surplus population
disappeared, so the numbers of surplus people grew. In Europe the situ-
ation was different; for one thing, the opportunity to work in agriculture
was more favorable than in England.