H. The Appeal of Marxism 1. Marx said he had proved his doctrines. There was the belief what he said would inevitably come about. Marxism not science as it does not propose a model to be tested by experience, but tries to fix experience to its model. Technology effects history.
Technology is based on knowledge.
We cannot predict future technology, since future technology is based on future knowledge, which by definition we don't yet have. Therefore we cannot predict the future course of events. Emotional Appeal Marxism decried ethics, but had an emotional appeal, especially when it talks about oppression. Also Marx tacitly assumes the Proletariat are better than other classes - more altrusitc and deserving. In Evolutionary Socialism 1899 Bernstein noted that Capitalism did not seem to be about to collapse, and change might even theoretically be brought about by parliamentray action.