Just like Karl Marx aimed to overcome classical economics with his 'critique of political economy' in the nineteenth century, Keynes also sought to bring down classical as well as neoclassical economics, which he both termed ' the Classical School', in the first third of this century. He states that this school only dealt with ' a special case', but cannot comply with the fundamentals of the economic system within which we live, 'with the result that its teaching is misleading and disastrous if we attempt to apply it to the facts of experience'.