Your observations about Marxism are actually well taken. However, ultimately Marxism is flawed in this respect. It is not an integration of economic thinking. An integration is defined as a combination of ONLY truths, workabilities and applicabilities. This is as opposed to either a reaction to or compromise with two apparently opposing theories/viewpoints wherein unworkabilities, inapplicabilities and/or untruths are enforced/insisted upon inclusion in a combination of those theories. As the RE-distribution of already and systemically enforced scarce individual incomes does not remedy scarcity socialist re-distribution fails the standard for an integration. A direct and additional DISTRIBUTION of income to the individual is workable and applicable and hence qualifies as an actual integration…and as an actual solution to the basic problem of monetary scarcity…instead of a reaction or compromise. The debate over capitalism versus socialism needs to be resolved, and it is resolved by understanding and moving to a third and unifying theory of Monetary Distributism.

Wisdom is integration, the integrative process and the unifying result of same. I suggest economists adopt Wisdom as their theoretical standard.

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