[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual…

“With the historical radar of Marx’s theories, on whose screen observers who have not swallowed the alcohol of the intoxicating bourgeois ideology cannot read…

— Amadeo Bordiga

During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain…

— Michel Foucault

“The class struggle had a just motive, and Socialism at the beginning was in the right. What has happened is that instead of pursuing…

— José Antonio Rivera

I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a…

— Erich Fromm

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

— Anatoly Chubais

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it…

— Rudolf Hiferding

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

— Robert Heilbroner

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

— Ernest Mandel

Marx did not recognize that our desire to connect with a transcendent power runs even deeper than our drive for economic satisfaction. Each of…

— Jeffrey Klein

“This is possibly the most revolutionary idea Marx ever had: that the reduction of labour to a minimum could produce a kind of human…

— Paul Mason

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is…

— Joan Robinson

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our…

— Charles A. Reich

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

— Harold MacMillan

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write…

— Jeff Goins