Able Quote by Allen W. Wood

Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially…

— Allen W. Wood

Well, first of all I think that we have to be careful with terms like the working class, obviously. When [Karl] Marx wrote about…

— Bill Ayers

“A “class analysis” does not necessarily begin and end with Marx’s nineteenth-century version, a version I regard as grossly inaccurate. The class struggle, moreover,…

— Murray Bookchin

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone…

— Allen W. Wood

“there was no dissent, no strike, no protest, no hesitation to shoulder a rifle against fellow workers of another land. When the call came,…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union…

— Ernest Mandel

“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

“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

Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

— C. L. R. James