Determination Quote by John Carroll

“The sort of individualism that scorns and fears connections with other people as threats to the self's integrity, and the sort of collectivism that…

— Marshall Berman

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

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

— Bernard Crick

“In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing”

— Ian Kershaw

“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

“ideology signifies a phenomenon intermediate between a simple lie at one pole, and an error, which is the result of a distorted and faulty…

— Karl Mannheim

“The more we learn of behavioral psychology, the more we understand that ideologies are as much a product of people’s nature as of observed…

— Daniel Hannan

“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

Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history,…

— Will Self

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

— Erich Fromm

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

— Norman Geras

For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive…

— John Carroll