The third stage of the development of the capitalist productive forces, i.e., the capitalist industry that replaced hand tools with machines and manual labor with mechanical labor. Since the last 30 years of the 18th century, the major capitalist countries in Western Europe have gradually transitioned from manufacture to modern mechanical industry through industrial revolutions…
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