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Anti-rent-seeking unity
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He even talks about how government itself was built to protect the rich from the poor. It's practically Marx verbatim.
Marx even openly credits Smith with doing important work in the field, albeit in a "He was SO close, but just missed the most essential point of all" kind of way, and freely quoted him.
Almost like Marx was an academic operating with the thinking of an academic - that new thought is built upon previous discoveries - instead of the weird tribalist 'My scripture GOOD, their scripture BAD' stuff people want to engage in.
Well, Marx drew more from Ricardo who was himself building upon Smith's work, but yes they were certainly part of the same continuum that arguably runs today through people like Graeber (pbuh) and Piketty.
Flip flop, chronologically