Aggregate Quote by Rudolf Hiferding

“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

“It seems obvious to me now – though I have been slow, I must say, in coming to the conclusion – that the institution…

— Max Eastman

“it was Marx who declared that the whole idea of Communism could be summed up in a single formula—the abolition of private property; that…

— Leszek Kołakowski

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does…

— Louis O. Kelso

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone…

— Allen W. Wood

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

— Norman Geras

“Recall Marx’s fundamental insight about the “bourgeois” limitation of the logic of equality: capitalist inequalities (“exploitation”) are not the “unprincipled violations of the principle…

— Slavoj Žižek

When well-divided property has disappeared and Capitalism has taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies.

— Hilaire Belloc

The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an…

— David Ricardo

Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our…

— Charles A. Reich

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

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process…

— John Maynard Keynes