Marx and Engels' Viewpoints on Technology and the Full Development of Human Beings

We can find plenty of extraordinary thoughts that Marx and Engels had made on technology and the full development of human beings from all kinds of their works. According to their analysis on the essence of human beings, Marx and Engels pointed out that as a kind of practical activity, technology is the objectification of human beings' essential power. The progress and development of human beings is based on the alienation of their own diversity. In fact, it is technology and the development of industry, which cause the alienation of the division of social labor and the emergence of nations. Therefore, Marx takes the one-sidedness of human beings as a necessary inner segment during the process of history. However, in order to overcome the alienation of human beings, we still need to depend on the progress of technology and industrial civilization, which are both the underlying power of the thorough liberation for human beings and the basic force for the freedom of human beings.