The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

When we talk about Marx and Engels in terms of political economy, a lot of what they're doing is simply taking a lot ofwhat was said by David Ricardo and Adam Smith. They are treating it as kind of the dialectical method itself, right? Precisely, precisely. This is why the first chapter of capital, much like, say, the first chapters of a biology textbook is about the cell, right? And then the later chapters of the biology textbook say, here's a cell, here's what an amoeba is, and then they build out from there, they unfold it dialectically. It's great the way that Ingalls, he'll quote a passage