“Baa Baa Black Sheep’ makes Marx’s Capital look like Mary Poppins .” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You… — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.… — Latest Copy Share Image
I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“The letters of Karl Marx make frequent reference to the violent quarrels between himself and his parents; the letters from Karl’s parents… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty. As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today -… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is… — David David Katzman Copy Share Image
The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx.… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Economics is the art of allocating scarce goods among competing demands. The conceit of Marxism was the thought that in Communism, economics… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“exploitation”) are not the “unprincipled violations of… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The class-dominance approach to political activity is acutely related to our own in an unfortunate terminological sense. By historical accident, the class-dominance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There exists [a] word in German, Geschichte, which designates not accomplished history, but history in the present, doubtless determined in large part,… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“The class struggle had a just motive, and Socialism at the beginning was in the right. What has happened is that instead… — José Antonio Rivera Copy Share Image
“Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financial and industrial processes. One… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
“This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“It is especially humbling that the simplest Trotskyist, council communist or anarcho-syndicalist militant saw much more clearly than famous and brilliant theorists… — G. M. Tamas Copy Share Image