Karl Marx
Supplies the rent-capture engine and the fetishism critique; the labour theory of value is declined from within, revolution declined via his own theorems.
Edition read. Capital Vols I–III and Theories of Surplus-Value, and the Communist Manifesto — read in full.
What we took
The deepest value-and-rent interlocutor. The commodity-fetishism critique is the deepest ancestor of the whole reframe — the value vector is the standing de-fetishisation Marx thought commodity production forecloses. Capital's rent theory becomes the doctrine's rent-capture engine: the rent-meter, the reproducibility firewall (rent attaches to non-reproducible position, not reproducible capability), the price-neutrality proof, and the capitalisation theorem showing forward-flow capture deflates the asset without seizure.
Where we diverge — and how we answer
The labour theory of value is declined from within — Marx's own transformation problem shows labour-time is not an operable metric, so measured effect plus the vote replace it. Revolution is declined via his own capitalisation theorem, and the command economy by his own "one immense factory" disqualifier. The fetishism charge, turned back on the value vector, is answered by the Trinity-Formula inversion: value constituted by a declared vote, not naturalised as a thing-property.
The net position
The most useful adversary and, on the engine of value and rent, the deepest ancestor — a third position that socialises the unearned and educates the person without nationalising the means or conscripting the labour.
Every position is read at the source. See the whole register on Lineage & Critique, or the doctrine itself in The System.