Marx...or Smith?

For each quote in question, guess whether Karl Marx or Adam Smith said it. Answers may surprise you!
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1. "Landlords love to reap where they never sowed."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
2. "The worker produces not only commodities; he produces himself and the worker as a commodity."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
3. "The value which the workmen add to the materials… resolves itself into two parts, of which the one pays their wages, the other the profits of their employer."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
4. "Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
5. "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
6. "Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!"
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
7. "Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the labourer, unless under compulsion from society."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
8. "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations… becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
9. "One capitalist always kills many."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
10. "Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
11. "Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
12. "The interest of the dealers… is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public."
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
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Level 69
Dec 26, 2025
Nice quiz, a really good idea.