things and that some will be better than others at certain tasks and that if they wanted to capitalize on their skills, they would exploit their own skills for their own good. (I found the rest of this section, The German Ideology, rather confusing especially when he talks about consciousness and the four historical relationships and the division of labor together). Nevertheless, I found Marx had a valid point when he wrote as “the need for extended markets, grows, the world market becomes more and more contracted, fewer and fewer new markets remain available 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....
