Well, as a partial analysis of the issues he explained some stuff but his conclusions always seem to end up with people dead in a ditch and the people at the top living the same lives as people at the top always do whilst everyone else starves. If one person was to to everything in a company, they would get all the rewards but all of the problems as well. When people break the job down and everyone does the bit that they are either best at or at least competent to do, then extra value can be generated through their combined efforts, there are always going to be people who are better at pushing a broom rather than selling the product or liaising with other companies for goods and services etc. The natural division of labour means that more people can be fed and supplied as a result of this synergy. Where it does tend to break down over long periods of time, is that people always assume their part of the job is the most important bit and they deserve more pay and status as a result. The guy pushing the broom tends not to get very far in this effort whereas, the person in the board room who associates with likeminded people is in a much better position to advance their status and rewards etc. Over time this compounds across companies, countries and even the world as a whole. Governments in part were supposed to level things out and keep the wheels turning as a whole through regulation, taxation and other measures but they have been captured by the same emergent behaviour.

Marx might have seen the issue but his proposed solutions were just as liable for emergent capture as any other system would have been. Capitalism takes everything from you gradually but there is a possibility of regaining it if you provide value to the system, Communism takes everything from you immediately and the only hope for a better life is to jump over the barbed wire and escape to a Capitalist system!