Decent Quote by Joe Weisberg

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

It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too favorable. He…

— Allen W. Wood

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 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

In general, the nightmare quality of Marx's thought gives it, in this bedevilled age, an air of greater reality than the gentle complacency of…

— Joan Robinson

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

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

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

It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt Soviet propaganda…

— 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

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

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

— Anonymous