Waltz I: Reflection on Man, the State and War

OK, I know this has little to do with IR, but like reading Hobbes informs our ability to read later works, understanding the arguments of the great economic thinkers helps us understand the arguments of the IR scolars, especially post the hegemony of economics as a discipline.

So, I want to talk about the 2 pages in which Waltz talks about one of my favorite economists/ advocates of class war, (Landlord v. Capitalist) David Ricardo.
His reference to Ricardo gave me a bit of jolt, b/c he argued that Ricardo just takes smith's argument about the capitalist(basically that they conspire against the public) and transformed it into an argument about landlords.

Arguments about Smith are always tough because the wealth of nations is 900 pages long and contradicts itself. But, Smith also sees the landlords as parasites who waist their income on unproductive consumption like servants.

Thus the labour of the manufacturer adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of the master’s profit. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary adds to the value of nothing, (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 330)