古典政治经济学实际上是一种社会理论 ,它认为社会由诸阶级构成 ,而阶级区分的依据是它们的不同经济职能 ,它们的社会和政治关系由其经济利益定位。斯密的社会阶级经济分析有首创之功 ,但因其未能前后一致地坚持劳动价值论 ,无法提供社会阶级关系的适当解释。李嘉图则在劳动价值论基础上提出了社会阶级冲突的可能性 Classical political economy is actually a kind of social theory, which holds that society consists of classes, and that the classification of classes is based on their different economic functions and their social and political relations are determined by their economic interests. Smith’s social class economic analysis has pioneering work, but failed to provide an appropriate explanation of the social class relations for failing to consistently apply the labor theory of value. Ricardo proposed the possibility of social class conflict on the basis of labor theory of value