For your benefit: “It has become fashionable to think that Karl Marx was not mainly an economist but instead integrated various disciplines—economics, sociology

For your benefit: “It has become fashionable to think that Karl Marx was not mainly an economist but instead integrated various disciplines—economics, sociology, political science, history, and so on—into his philosophy. But Mark Blaug, a noted historian of economic thought, points out that Marx wrote “no more than a dozen pages on the concept of social class, the theory of the state, and the materialist conception of history” while he wrote “literally 10,000 pages on economics pure and simple.’” https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Marx.html https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Marx.html The fact of the matter is that Das Kapital is a foundational text in economics; it provided an analytical framework and an early prototype of rigour (before the introduction of mathematical formalism) that would influence just about every clade of economics that followed. Not accusing you of intellectual sophistry, but the sentiment that Marx isn’t an economist is seen as rather glib at this point.