Professionals and Experts: Adam(Smith) or Eve? David Preston and Keith 7ayler European Centres~r CorporateEthics University of East London Duncan House, High Street, London El5 2JB, England d.preston@uel.ac.uk /~i dam Smith and Karl Marx have a great deal in common. Marx, who never missed an opportunity to belittle the ..l. .l.intellect of a classical bourgeois political economist, had a genuine respect for Smith; indeed, we need only look at the Grundrisseto realise how much Marx was influenced by him. (1) Of course there were fundamental breaks between them, not least of which was that Marx eluded to a communist utopia, while Smith was more inclined to paint a picture of a future society that would, unless the government intervenes to prevent it, be a distopia for most of its inhabitants (2) One thing they did share, indeed still do, was that their ideas were immediately distorted and selectively employed against the order or class of people they were supposed to benefit. (3) As disagreeable, insensitive and often bigoted as Marx was, nobody could seriously claim that he would have supported the butchery that was carried out in the name of Marxist economic necessity.(4) Marx did not live to see
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Preston, David; Tayler, Keith
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