Marx vs Smith: whose hand moves the market?

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KARL MARX vs ADAM SMITH go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

KARL MARX

Your invisible hand, Mr. Smith, is quite skilled at picking the worker's pocket.

ADAM SMITH

And your revolution, Herr Marx, seems eager to burn the loom that clothes him.

KARL MARX

I would free him from the loom's owner; you merely trust the butcher's self-interest to feed us dinner.

ADAM SMITH

It has fed more dinners than any manifesto, sir—for it is not benevolence but exchange that puts bread on the table.

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