On the Division of Labor Karl Marx and Adam Smith both realized that there have been benefits to the division of labor, but Marx believes that through strict specialization, a person is being individually hurt by being devoid of greater experiences. ... Marx speaks about the manufacture of materials. ... Marx explains how this can come to be. ... (Marx, 483) Smith believes that this can all be justified through the education of the working class. ... Marx argues that with the implementation of machines, this problem would not be as severe. ...

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Paragraph #3: Karl Marx On the other hand, Karl Marx saw capitalist society where there was terrible inequality. Marx believed there is no such thing as a "laissez-faire " capitalist society. ... Marx was a critic of capitalism and believed in individual freedom. ... However, Karl Marx argued that capitalism would eventually produce internal tensions which would lead to its destruction. ... Marx believed that severe crises would ruin this cycle of growth and collapse. ...

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Three Basic Views of Property: The Correlation of an Idea John Locke's ideas on general property, Karl Marx's ideas of labor and wages, and Adam Smith's ideas on the rent of property and the circumstances that balance employment seem to correlate. ... Karl Marx was interested in the buying and selling of the labor needed to mine the diamonds for example and also the relation of wage-labor to capital. ... This brings into play Marx's ideas on the relation of wage-labor to capital. Marx asks, "What is it that takes place in the exchange between the capitalist and the w...

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