Karl Marx’s scientific contributions

... Perhaps the most explicit prediction of this sort was made by Karl Marx (1818-1883) himself who proposed that economically advanced populations, in which the "internal contradictions" of capitalism were most pronounced, would be the ones to first experience successful communist revolutions. He predicted that Communism was therefore likely to start in urban areas of the UK or Germany, which were among the most industrially advanced nations at the time (Marx, 1867(Marx, , 1885(Marx, , 1894. This did not occur, and indeed a great deal of effort was subsequently expended by communist intellectuals to explain away the failures of predictions such as these (e.g. ...

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Domino Theory Through the Lens of Human Evolutionary Ecology