Causes Quote by Ernest Mandel

“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

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

— Louis Althusser

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

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 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

“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals,…

— Roger Scruton

“Marx - like everyone else - did reject certain ideas of human nature; but he also regarded some as being true. It is important…

— Norman Geras

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

“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

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

There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the…

— Howard Zinn