1.3. The Solution: Theory and History
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The technological invention that solved (at least temporarily) the problem of a steadily emerging and re-emerging “excess” of population and the attendant fall of average living standards was a revolutionary change in the entire mode of production. From Chapter 1, “On the Origin of Private Property and the Family”. Narrated by Millian Quinteros.