Human nature Quote by Peter Singer

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

— Norman Geras

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

— Ian Kershaw

We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or…

— Allen W. Wood

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

“...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.”

— Louis Althusser

“Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.”

— Marilynne Robinson

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

“For Marx, society does not exist.”

— Michel Henry

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

“Unfortunately Marx said that the important thing is not to understand the world but to change it. Poor man, he got it the wrong…

— Malcolm Bradbury

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still…

— Peter Singer

“When the Marxists say, as they sometimes do, that Marx has proved the uselessness of a counter cycle policy and of similar piecemeal measures,…

— Karl R. Popper