Intellectual Quote by Neil Kinnock

I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical…

— Murray Bookchin

Marx's theory that only capitalists benefit from capitalism and workers are exploited was completely wrong. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Workers…

— Kenneth Rogoff

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

— Robert Gilpin

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

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

— Amber Hollibaugh

This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or ­anything like that. It was my mum.

— Emily Thornberry

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

— Norman Geras

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of…

— Fidel Castro

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

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

— Ian Kershaw