ABSTRACT
Marx's critique of Ricardo's On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (3rd edition, 1821) 1 is an especially controversial subject about which much has been written in the history of political economy. Several different positions on the degree and nature of the critical-intellectual filiation between Marx and Ricardo are evident in the literature. Some writers have been most concerned to dissociate Ricardo from Marx's revelations about the conflict- and crisis-ridden nature of capitalism. 2 Others have been concerned to dissociate Marx from Ricardo's bourgeois political economy by arguing that his critique represents a distinct rupture in the evolutionary progress of the history of political economy. In the work of this group, Marx becomes an ‘a-Ricardian’ whose critique of political economy and capitalism is independent of any intellectual filiations with Ricardo or anybody else. 3
