Facts Quote by Erich Fromm

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

The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent…

— Allen W. Wood

I never read Karl Marx.

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.

— Robert Nozick

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has…

— Albert Maltz

“Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.”

— Marilynne Robinson

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

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

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

“Still, she assured herself as she unpacked her suitcase on the bed, Marx wrote his Manifesto one word at a time, with but pen…

— Mercedes Lackey

“Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain…

— Neil Postman