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And I think we have seen it, he will--
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this comes straight out of Adam Smith,
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what you have read.
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The relations of different nations among themselves
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depends to which each has developed these productive forces,
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the division of labor and its internal intercourse.
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So that's exactly--right?--what Adam Smith said.
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Hunting/gathering societies, grazing societies,
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agricultural societies, commercial societies,
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they all correspond to different levels of division of labor.
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And that's what Marx initially tries to do
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in The German ideology.