75 Quotes About Marx

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian

If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are disturbed as to how, by, and against whom wealth and political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wanting to act with others, to "do something," you have much in common with the writers of the three essays in Manifesto.

Asians love schoolgirls in uniforms. They say the Japanese can buy used schoolgirl panties from vending machines. And from shops hidden away in apartment buildings. Burusera shops, they call them. The smell is very important; it adds value to the commodity. I wonder how Marx would have dealt with that?

Baa Baa Black Sheep’ makes Marx’s Capital look like Mary Poppins.

the gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology with the supernatural sanctions left out

Little attention was paid to current events. The view was taken that if a man knew Marx's Theory of Value and the progress of society from early times he was equipped to analyze anything.

«Rara felicidad la de los tiempos en los que se puede pensar lo que se dice y decir lo que se piensa», escribía Marx, citando a Tácito, en un artículo acerca de la censura, publicado en 1842.

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