I feel like by not teaching the spicier parts of Marx' family tree to economists or "successful business people" (that is, the US Capitalist investor and business-leadership class), the US has sort of set up a self-fulfilling prophecy for hyper-[The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall]
an accelerating spiral of increased productive capacity causing capitalists to undercut each other, and race to the bottom for the least possible investment. For every new/renewed thing someone else jumps to where the profit rate hasn't fallen as much yet. Just to create another [Red Queen Race]-to-the-bottom and abandon whatever they were developing before.
when this is obvious even if you only read the wikipedia articles' first paragraphs
