Will to Grow and Extra-Terrestriality

Given the evidence at their disposal, Marxists of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries are justified in subsuming the rise of Science and its applications, in the Modern era, under Dialectical Materialism, since the fruits of all that productivity can easily be construed to be the elimination of scarcity, and of the need for human labor, that are the breeding grounds of exploitation.  However, they could hardly have imagined the eventual further fruit of Science--extra-terrestrial travel.  Now, to the extent that the 'space race' is an offshoot of the Cold War, it can be interpreted as yet another episode in Dialectical Materialism.  But, with those hostilities no longer a factor, this latest development in Human history can be more clearly recognized as a manifestation of a Will to Grow that has been the Species-Principle all along.