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I think that's an extremely reductive and academically dishonest question.

Adam Smith didn't propose some new system (and nor did Marx, really). Modern economists understand at least they work based on observation of human behavior and policy to influence or react to it, not a "system" from first principles that solves all problems perfectly.

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I don't think you read Marx, because what you're saying about his work ain't true: he absolutely had a systemic thinking and within it for sure perfection could be achieved, by means of superceding the division of classes. Nevertheless, most people who cite Marx didn't actually read Marx, but a rehashed version from someone else. Or perhaps only a small, incomplete, subset of his work, from a very specific perspective. Marx's writings in particular have been falsified many times, for a multitude of reasons.

Marx didn’t propose a new system of government though, Marx proposed a theory of history (“history as class struggle”) in which the inevitable outcome was communism.

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