Contradiction Quote by David Harvey

We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or…

— Allen W. Wood

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

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society…

— Benjamin Tucker

“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

“in contrast to the Hegelians of the right-wing, Marx made an honest attempt to apply rational methods to the most urgent problems of social…

— Karl R. Popper

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 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

Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It…

— Thomas Nixon Carver

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

— Louis Althusser

Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to…

— Ernest Mandel

Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how…

— Allen W. Wood