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the occurrence of eclipses, all those things,
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and that's science which was in the past by Marx's time,
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and which he aspired to that level of confidence.
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We're going to look at his historicism, that is,
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the double belief that the world is deterministic and
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that he and his associates can actually unlock
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the keys to the future, under six headings.
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The first of which is monopoly capitalism,
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and we'll take that up momentarily.
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Second is the proposition that, in the long run,
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the rate of profit for capitalist enterprises has to fall.
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Third the immiseration of the working class,