Actual Quote by Ernest Mandel

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

— C. L. R. James

“Marxism was and is a class analysis, pitting economic classes against each other in a zero-sum competition. In that competition, the stronger parties would…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our…

— Barbara Amiel

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 are plenty of Marxist-Leninist textbooks about taking power; but there are none about giving it up.”

— Victor Sebestyen

Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

— Allen W. Wood

The Marxist theory of ideology is extremely contentious, not least because it is tied to socio-economic hypotheses that are no longer believable.

— Roger Scruton

“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

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have…

— Ernest Mandel

“I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong?…

— Slavoj Zizek

“When the Marxists say, as they sometimes do, that Marx has proved the uselessness of a counter cycle policy and of similar piecemeal measures,…

— Karl R. Popper

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

— Herbert Read