Quotes About Marx

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

Stalin underlined a passage in his copy of Marx that he kept in his library: "There is only one way to shorten and ease the convulsions of the old society and the bloody birth pangs of the new: revolutionary terror." Beside it, Stalin wrote: "Terror is the quickest way to the new society.

What is remarkable is that Marx, precisely because he agreed with Hegel in rejecting the construction of abstract utopias, became probably the greatest utopian in the history of philosophy

It is 'the work of history', said Marx, 'to discover the various uses of things'.

It is the socio-historical character of Marx's concept of nature which distinguishes it from the outset. Marx considered nature to be 'the primary source of all instruments and objects of labour',3 i.e. he saw nature from the beginning in relation to human activity. All other statements about nature, whether of a speculative, epistemological, or scientific kind, already presuppose social practice, the ensemble of man's technologico-economic modes of appropriation.

This was a Method Acting scene class on somatic mushrooms plus Marx, or something." -Reverend Billy Talen

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

It appears obvious that, within this framework, the essence of the bread can be anything, or can be asserted to be anything. It could be the essence of the Easter Bunny, or it could be Jesus and the Easter Bunny both, or it could be the Five Original Marx Brothers, or it could be a million other spooks happily co-existing in the realm outside space-time where such metaphysical entities appear to reside.

The conflict, Marat/Sade (which should really be Marx/Sade, except that the ingenious Mr. Weiss was not quite ingenious enough to devise a historical conjunction between uncle Karl and the Marquis), is the conflict between anarchy and tyranny. Sade, not Marat or Marx, is the true revolutionary, for he aims at a world outside the crucible of punishment-and-submission, while they aim at a new world still within that crucible.

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few remaining disciples to devote less time to reading Das Kapital and more time to studying the Internet and the human genome.

Socialism, which was very up to date a hundred years ago, failed to keep up with the new technology. [...] If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few relating disciples to devote less time to reading Das Kapital and more time to studying the Internet and the human genome.

Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.

Above all, Marx emphasized and admired the progressiveness of bourgeois America against feudal Europe.

Before seeking refuge in London, Marx and Engels had taken part in a secret society called the "Communism League" which commissioned them to prepare the now famous (Rest assured that we didn't earn a penny from it…) COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Marx never had a steady income or a permanent job or a bank account… But what he couldn't earn for his own family, he won for Millions of others through his writings…

Public education's commendable aim of creating "equal opportunity for all" is too easily subverted by the egregious aim of creating a clean conscience for the few. If everybody can "read at grade level," then we need not be overly concerned if some people get to read fabulous dividend statements and other people, who may be working twice as hard, get to read pink slips. All we need hope is that the latter sort never get to read Marx.