&gt;The Marxism school of thought is one of fantasies, of free lunches from artful arrangement of resources.<p>Actually the Marxist school of thought is one of economic self-determination.<p>That ideal went badly wrong with the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat.<p>Even so. Economic freedom - <i>specifically the moral right of the working classes to benefit from the economic value of their labour</i> - is the bedrock concept of both Marxism and Socialism.<p>And the bedrock moral value of American corporate capitalism is the elimination of that right in favour of distribution of value exclusively to a social conceit called &quot;capital&quot;.<p>Now - in fact both are oversimplified and wrong-headed, and both lead to disaster in different ways.<p>A useful synthesis may be possible, perhaps. But it&#x27;s going to take a much more insightful analysis than anything that appeared in previous centuries.