I thought Marx’s Wage Labour and Capital was much more interesting and easier to understand than the previous reading. In this section, Marx attacks the idea of competition, division of labor, capital growth, and the injustice that workers must face as a result of them. Marx says that even with capital growth that would ideally benefit the working class, “the antagonism between his [the workers] interests and the interests of the bourgeoisie” still exist …showed first 75 words of 486 total…

…showed last 75 words of 486 total…for exploitation” (217). Today, investors in industrialized countries are expanding their boundaries and tapping into international markets, especially those in emerging countries such as China. Growth rates are highest in such booming markets and so are profits, but there would be a threshold as to how much they could offer once these countries become fully industrialized themselves. Once that happens, there would be fewer and fewer markets left to tap into to reap the benefits available.