Marx:
-machines/industry exploit labor-power
-difference between tool and machine... machine replaces manpower (or animal power). Both machines and poeple use tools but machines are able to use the tools in ways humans cannot by combining tools and machine motor, etc.
Morris:
-Intellectual art vs. decorative art
-intellectual feeds the mind
-decorative also appeals to the mind, but that purpose is secondary to aesthetic beauty
-There have been nations and periods that lacked purely intellectual art, but none that lacked some sort of decorative art
-believes that decorative art has been declining in quality... civilizations carelessness to blame? --> building of suburbs/urban sprawl
-Intellectual art insists on individualism, forbids co-operation
- Art is man's expression of his joy in labor... art-lacking labor is unhappy labor, unhappy labor leads to unhappy life
-growth of commerce lead to the decline of craft
-believes competitive commerce is a waste. Waste of creativity?!?
-"Art is long and life is short; let us at least do something before we die."
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