>>7286996>market behavior is still firm-based in competitionClassical political economy was all about class relations: wages, rent, and profit (workers, idler rentiers, capitalists) and the distribution of the surplus product. Higher wages = lower profits, higher rents = lower profits, higher profits = lower wages, etc, etc. Marx conceptualized it a bit differently than Smith or Ricardo with his idea of surplus-value and such but class conflict was mostly a economic thing to Marx
