 For example, Karl Marx did not condemn the steam engine or the spinning mill for the vices of the bourgeois mode of production; he believed that ongoing technological innovation were necessary steps toward the more blissful stages of socialism and communism of the future (see Bimber 1990 for a discussion of different views on the role of technology in Marx’s theory of historical development, and see Van der Pot 1985 [1994/2004] for an extensive historical overview of appreciations of the development of technology).