[lbo-talk] Marx on competition

[Shane Mage]

Doug quotes Marx:
>
>No matter how powerful the means of production which a capitalist 
>may bring into the field, competition will make their adoption 
>general...

But in those days, 1.5 centuries ago,  patents were very few,
held only by individual inventors, and barely enforcable.  And the
Devil had not yet gotten around to inventing "intellectual property"
and "trade secrets"...