Acting Quote by Allen W. Wood

Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very…

— David Harvey

His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty…

— Hannah Arendt

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic,…

— Che Guevara

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of…

— Eugene Ionesco

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations…

— Robert Heilbroner

“While it is absurd to blame Marx for something he did not foresee and certainly would have condemned if he had foreseen it, the…

— Peter Singer

Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a…

— Louis O. Kelso

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are.…

— Henry Hazlitt

Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.”

— Louis Althusser

“One cannot do justice to Marx without recognizing his sincerity. His open-mindedness, his sense of facts, his distrust of verbiage, and especially of moralizing…

— Karl R. Popper

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but…

— Erich Fromm