I think this music video exemplifies some of Marx's ideas.

He says, "On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces, which no epoch of the former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire" (577). This video shows three depictions of this "horror" with the mindlessness of divided factory labor, the effects of pollution, and the aesthetic unpleasantness of industrial society.

Marx goes on to say, "Machinery, gifted with the wonderful power of shortening and fructifying human labour, we behold starving and overworking it...The victories of art seem bought by the loss of character" (578). In the video we see this trade off. Machinery can now replace the Factory Band, but now the music has lost all character. The sense of artistic expression that comes with the creativity of being human is lost. This could be seen as Smith's idea of progress gone too far.