[Verse 1] Adam Smith saw invisible hands guiding the market's way Individual choices make the system work, he'd say But Marx looked deeper at the structure underneath Where capital and labor meet in fundamental conflict's teeth The liberal sees freedom in the marketplace exchange But Marx sees power hiding in what money can arrange [Chorus] It's not about individuals, it's structural all the way Power's in relations where the workers give their pay Marxism sees the system, not the person or the choice Economic structures silence the worker's voice Liberal, socialist, anarchist, Keynesian too They miss the core relations that Marx is pointing to [Verse 2] Socialists want redistribution, make the wealth more fair But Marx says ownership's the problem that we need to repair It's not about the sharing, it's about who owns the means The factory, the farmland, all the profit-making machines While socialists reform the system piece by piece Marx wants transformation for the working class release [Chorus] It's not about individuals, it's structural all the way Power's in relations where the workers give their pay Marxism sees the system, not the person or the choice Economic structures silence the worker's voice Liberal, socialist, anarchist, Keynesian too They miss the core relations that Marx is pointing to [Verse 3] Anarchists say smash the state, let freedom have its day But Marx knows class relations won't just fade away Without confronting capital and how surplus gets extracted The powerful will find new ways to keep the masses distracted Keynes thinks government spending can smooth out every crash But Marx sees deeper contradictions in the capitalist dash [Bridge] Polanyi showed the great transformation When market logic took the nation But Marx predicted this mutation Economic base shapes every station [Chorus] It's not about individuals, it's structural all the way Power's in relations where the workers give their pay Marxism sees the system, not the person or the choice Economic structures silence the worker's voice Liberal, socialist, anarchist, Keynesian too They miss the core relations that Marx is pointing to [Outro] Structure over agency, relations over trade That's the Marxist difference in the theory game we've played
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