Complexes Quote by Paul A. Baran

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is…

— Joan Robinson

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of…

— Earl Browder

“This is possibly the most revolutionary idea Marx ever had: that the reduction of labour to a minimum could produce a kind of human…

— Paul Mason

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend…

— John Desmond Bernal

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of…

— Earl Browder

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

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions…

— Earl Browder

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part,…

— John Desmond Bernal

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all…

— Karl Marx

“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

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society…

— Benjamin Tucker

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic,…

— Che Guevara