Acquire Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter

Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.

— Vladimir Lenin

A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its…

— Milton Friedman

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

— Ernest Mandel

Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and…

— Antonio Gramsci

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“IT is no accident that Marx should have begun with an analysis of commodities when, in the two great works of his mature period,…

— György Lukács

“If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance, no satisfaction (profit apart) in constructing a factory, a railway, a mine or a…

— John Maynard Keynes

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

— Jeremy Grantham

Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.

— Mark Lynas

“My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming…

— David David Katzman

You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be…

— Vladimir Lenin

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The…

— Ellen Willis