History is the progressive accumulation of productive forces (Engels). What this means is that history is the accumulation of productive forces and what constitutes its progressiveness is its spontaneous qualitative development and expansion. This qualitative development has at its center the revolutionizing and expansion of however the existing technological regime is constituted ^^^^^ CB: Before capitalism, the technological regimes have relatively less development during the course of their epochs. The prior ruling classes were _not_ constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production. Because we are in the bourgeois epoch, we tend to project onto the past the bourgeois obsession with developing the means of production.
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