Marx’s comparative advantage was to read Hegel and create a narrative in which history is the history of class struggle, with the newly emergent industrial proletariat destined to develop “class consciousness” and overthrow the political and economic order created by the bourgeoisie. Liberal democracy has been at a disadvantage in the battle for the narrative because it tends to treat the collective self as if it were just a rational median voter in search of a better job.
马克思的比较优势是阅读了黑格尔并创造了一套历史是阶级斗争的历史的叙事，新出现的工业无产阶级必定会形成“阶级意识”，推翻由资产阶级建立的政治和经济秩序。自由民主在叙事之争中处于劣势，因为它总是将集体自我视为一个寻找更好的工作的理性的普通选民。