Do you know what story Idiocracy is based on ? Just curious, now don't be shy.. and don't bring in Bertrand Russell and his scientific outlook and tell me that communist China and democratic Germany actually follow that regime more closely than any other countries.
Volnix : joke number 4. Meat, what is that ? That might mean what you think it means. Or actually, I'm not sure I know what you mean.
Alienator : Well, Marx critiqued what's called the rentier (surplus value) state and David Ricardo's Law of Rent. However, Marx himself also engaged in profiteering and dabbled in the stock market, ostensibly so he could retire while living off the rent.
Marx's concepts were probably quite familiar to John Maynard Keynes as Marx was a major contributor to economic theory (or philosophy, if you want to call it that). Many of his concepts are universal in the sense he examines concepts pertaining to modern property law. Similar concepts about rent, property, economic theory, money and division of labour were covered by, in part : Thomas Malthus, Frederick Engels, Francois Quesnay, Adam Smith (An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations), John Locke (Two Treatises of Government), and John Law, among others.