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Under feudalism and even/especially under slave societies, it was possible to build large buildings requiring many divisions of skilled labor, and to command armies in the hundreds of thousands, all equipped with the most advanced technology that was available. The fact that they didn't produce the technology we have today is more a matter of the sequential progression of technology than of the users of technology. The march of technological development is mostly independent of what state structures are in place. The linear development of "slave society > feudalism > capitalism > socialism" is largely a post hoc ergo propter hoc heuristic in the Western European perspective, much like "savages > barbarians > semi-civilized > civilized" and "Stone Age > Copper Age > Bronze Age > Iron Age" that were dominant in Marx and Engels' time but have been superseded.
The interest under socialism of making physical improvements with less redundancy, to better peoples lives, is a good point. And I fully agree with it. But it doesn't directly have much to do with the more backward/reactionary modes of social development.