Quotes About Karl Marx

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

the so-called radical Negroes who have read and misunderstood Karl Marx and his disciples and would solve the political as well as the economic problems of the race by an immediate application of these principles. History shows that although large numbers of people have actually tried to realize such pleasant dreams, they have in the final analysis come back to a social program based on competition.

The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

The fundamental insight of SRT is, simply put, that human labor is at the heart of creating or reproducing society as a whole. The notion of labor is conceived here in the original sense in which Karl Marx meant it, as "the first premise of all human history

Simon Bolivar, when history led him - and as Karl Marx said, men can make history, but only as far as history allows us to do so - when history took Bolivar and made him the leader of the independence process in Venezuela, he made that process revolutionary.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

Karl Marx's dictum that 'men do make their own history, but . . . under given and imposed conditions'.

Karl Marx famously said that religion is "the opium of the people." What he meant is that religious sentiment could obscure the material deprivations that workers and other exploited people experience in their daily lives.

Nothing in socialist doctrine argues for the abuse of power, from Thomas More, to Karl Marx, to Chavez, to Ocasio-Cortez. Historically, however, it has been the case that socialist countries often end up violently suppressing their citizens.

In fact, "classes" don't exist in nature. It is our thinking—our arranging in categories—that constructs classes in our minds. The question is not whether social classes exist in the sense of Karl Marx; the question is whether we can use the concept of social classes in the way in which Karl Marx meant it. We can't.

Instead of assigning grades according to merit, plan to simply add all my student's scores together and divide by the total number of students. Since I grade on a bell curve, this means that every student---every semester in every class---will receive a grade of 'C'. Nothing would please Karl Marx more than knowing that regardless of talent or effort everyone will get the same outcome in my classes.

Polycarp used to dazzle youngsters with tales of heroic worker strikes. He also relished telling stories about a man called Karl Marx, a name he pronounced as Kalu Mazi.