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Why didn't John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx cross paths both being in the Victorian era?

It seems like it should have been likely, I know Marx knew about Mill, but I'm not sure the extent Mill knew Marx. So why didn't  two great economists in the same time and place not engage ?
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To give some context: the Victorian era was full of philosophers, economists and new political ideas. Just like thinkers today engage with those they deem interesting or relevant, so too did thinkers in the past. You should also not forget that we don’t remember most thinkers and that the relative importance of certain thinkers to us now isn’t a view always shared with people in the victorian era.