Economic discussions

I wonder at the seeming overwhelming support for Marxist theory which is 
appearing in these discussions.  It was Adam Smith who formalized economic 
theory and he envisaged a future of economic growth accompanied by the 
intellectual and moral decay of the laboring classes while Marx projected a 
drama of self-destructive capitalism laying the basis for the constructive 
tasks of socialism.  The mind-numbing work of economic life lead Smith to 
conclude that the lives of people would denigrate on other important 
measures 
while it appears that Marx was of the opinion that such work would somehow 
release the human spirit into an existential flight of improvement.

It appears to my thinking that what both these gentlemen were doing was 
trying to formulate "tools" and "methods" which would allow them to "look 
into the future."

The need of humans to formulate a means to "look into the future" appears 
to 
be an ancient driving force of our form of life.  To center such 
discussions 
on "economic" principles is a curious method don't you agree?  

If we hope to achieve a "future" for human societies, we must overcome the 
"economic" urges of social organization and identify and develop other 
means 
which allow and encourage the improvement of human society and life   To 
flounder in the arguments which are being expressed, I would propose, is to 
stay in the cesspool of economic thought while ignoring that ladders exist 
which allow for us as humans to rise above the stench of organizing our 
lives 
based on accumulation of goods and capital.

Pablo