Quote by John Ruskin

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.


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Summary

This quote by Karl Marx highlights the nature of division of labor in society. Marx suggests that it is not the labor itself that is divided, but rather the individuals involved. He argues that this division turns people into mere fragments or segments, stripping them of their complete identity and reducing them to specialized tasks. Marx further emphasizes that this extreme division in labor leaves individuals with limited intellectual capacity, as they exhaust all their abilities in the smallest components of the overall production process.

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Labor
By John Ruskin
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