In class the teacher passed out Hershey kisses to everyone. Everyone in the class received three Hershies but only two people received ten Hershies. After the teacher distributed the chocolate, classmates versed each other in rock, paper, and scissor. The rule was that only one round was played and if a classmate lost they had to give a Hersey to the person they lost to. If a student lost all their chocolate they sat down. The second time the teacher recollected the Hershies from students and re-distributed them that time, making sure everyone had an equivalent amount of chocolate. The teacher then gave the options of staying seated or facing other classmates to gain more chocolate. The frustrating parts were giving up the chocolates and having to be seated if people lost all their chocolate. Also, in the beginning when the teacher handed out a large amount of chocolate to two students it was frustrating for other students because the two students received a superfluous amount of chocolate. The fun part of the activity was by the end, the class was able to eat the chocolates. The purpose of that activity was to show the class an idea of Communism, socialism, and capitalism. In the beginning of the activity when students were playing against each other and there were two students with a lot of chocolate they were considered the rich people in society and as they went around and people lost that represented how rich people gained more money and poor people got poorer. The second round when the teacher recollected the chocolate that represented how the government would recollect money and evenly distributed the chocolate. Overall, the activity was a fun way to begin a topic and it gave some type of experience on how capitalism, communism, and socialism played its role in society.
Karl Marx and Adam Smith were both economic philosophers whose economic theories intended to benefit the poor. Both Marx's and Smith's theories aimed to attain a stability within the economy and government. Marx's theory, Marxism, assumed that capitalism would falter because the proletariat would no longer stand for industrial exploitation. As a result the Proletariat would revolt and take over the government and industrial production. Proletarians, following their revolution, would produce a self-sufficient economy and they would manufacture all of what they need within a Socialist system. A socialist system is the first step to eliminate socio-economic classes. Over time, they would become a classless society due to the wearing down of societal barriers to form a more extreme form of Socialism, Communism. The poor no longer get exploited because they share the same socio-economic level as industrialists.
http://historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html
In contrast, with Smith's theory a capitalist society operates with no government. Thus, the theory was a natural phenomenon that modeled free markets and capitalism through a rivalry for scarce resources. Smith assumed that people try to augment their own goods to become wealthier. By doing that through trade and entrepreneurship, society as a whole would be best off. There's no "visible hand" directing companies in Smith's theory. Smith's theory benefited the poor because eventually when prices dropped it could be available to more people and the poor would be able to afford what they wanted to buy.
http://www.newrepublic.com/book/review/adam-smith-nicholas-phillipson
I think that Marx's theory is a better solution because it would be a classless society and people wouldn't have to worry about whose making more or whose making less. Also, with Marx's theory the government would provide everyone what they needed and so there would be no competition to who has it better. With Marxism society is a better place because everyone's power is equivalent.
here are links to videos to learn more about Karl Marx and Adam Smith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyVXa-u4wE&feature=youtu.behttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16IMc5mhbZk&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqMK3LmHPZs&feature=youtu.be


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