Evolution, Means of Communication, Economics

As has been previously discussed, perhaps ironically, Marx-Engels miss that their collaboration exemplifies a Relation of Production that it is not considered in the content of their product.  They also, perhaps ironically, miss how the propagation of that product is itself a factor in the problem that they seek to solve.  For, that propagation is via the printing press, an invention which atomizes its audience, just as Gutenberg's Bible atomizes a flock after centuries of gathering en masse for access to it.  In other words, they do not consider how the Means of Communication might determine the Relations of Production, nor how the Means of Communication contradicts the content of what they are attempting to communicate.  Now, a significant aspect of Armstrong's giant leap--the means of its being communicated, i. e. globally televised--also demonstrates an evolution of the Means of Communication since the eras of Smith and Marx-Engels, an evolution that has continued in the fifty years since, i. e. the first human on Mars might Tweet or post on Facebook.  Thus, the persistence of Capitalism and its Socialist modifications is also a persistence of a contradiction between the still dominant Means of Production and the ascendant Means of Communication.  Diagnosis of current political paroxysms, e. g. Brexit, is difficult without a recognition of the increasing common obsolescence of the otherwise conflicting Economics doctrines that have dominated for centuries.