Technology, History, Weaponry

While Marxists conceive Technology as integral to the emergence of Socialism, they do not explain how the history of Technology coincides with the history of Economic relations.  Now, the Means of Production is not the only aspect of society that is influenced by Technology.  Communication is, too, i. e. Gutenberg's invention has plainly helped shape society, without any obvious derivation from Economic relations.  But, a perhaps more decisive impact of Technology on the course of human history, beginning with the necessity of its adequacy if a Revolution is to succeed, is weaponry, a topic absent from Marxist analyses of the transition from Capitalism to Socialism.  Especially troublesome to a Marxist theory of History is the apparent defeat of the Soviet Union by the U. S., because of its military inferiority.  But, even granting Communism a more favorable outcome of the Cold War, confirmation of Trotsky's thesis, that technological progress conduces to the ascendance of Socialism, requires a more rigorous, generalizable, derivation of that result, from Einstein's moment of inspiration regarding the relation of Energy and Matter, via its application to the development of nuclear weaponry, in the forefront of which has been the U. S.