Marx’s obsession with defining everyone as homo economicus caused him to ignore many of the most important facts of life. It is a lesson that not only Marxist economists would do well to learn: To look upon the interactions of the priest and the confessor, mother and child, doctor and patient, soldiers and their comrades, musicians and their audiences as exclusively, or even primarily, economic transactions is to cram the square pegs of your ideology into the round holes of reality.
