Karl Marx Quote by Ian Kershaw

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

— Louis Althusser

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

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by…

— Victor Sebestyen

I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship…

— Tony Blair

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

Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of…

— Robert Heilbroner

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

— Norman Geras

“Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but…

— Karl Marx

“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

“For Marx, society does not exist.”

— Michel Henry

“Till now philosophers have tried to understand the world,The point however to change it.Karl Marx”

— Manickam Nambi

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

— Marilynne Robinson