Adam Smith is actually low key goated. Marx builds a lot off of him, and corrects some things but keeps a lot of it when describing capitalism and how it functions and developed. Adam Smith hated landlordism and rent seekers, and he acknowledged that specialized production can lead to alienation of the laborers. His issue was only some major assumptions and blind spots. It was certainly a start, and a lot better one than whatever reactionary nonsense is spewed in the modern day to children from prageru ads or GOP written history books
Exactly. Ricardo was the thinker Marx actually butted heads with. Smith though? Pretty sure him and Marx would have ended up getting along if they lived in the same time. Once you understand just how much Kapital builds on Wealth of Nations, it's a total game changer. One of the things that broke through my liberal programming quite hard.
Unpopular opinion: people's entry to theory SHOULD be Adam Smith to prevent people like this.
Adam Smith is actually low key goated. Marx builds a lot off of him, and corrects some things but keeps a lot of it when describing capitalism and how it functions and developed. Adam Smith hated landlordism and rent seekers, and he acknowledged that specialized production can lead to alienation of the laborers. His issue was only some major assumptions and blind spots. It was certainly a start, and a lot better one than whatever reactionary nonsense is spewed in the modern day to children from prageru ads or GOP written history books
Exactly. Ricardo was the thinker Marx actually butted heads with. Smith though? Pretty sure him and Marx would have ended up getting along if they lived in the same time. Once you understand just how much Kapital builds on Wealth of Nations, it's a total game changer. One of the things that broke through my liberal programming quite hard.