Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

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.

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

[Referring to Karl Marx:] ... the prince of muddleheads.

As for Marx, his economic value, apart from occasional … flashes of insight, is nil.

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.

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

I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I'm choosing to be a part of this system, thus I'm choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system.

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history.

Marx is the prophet of globalized capitalism.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

The first time I read Marx, all I knew was he had given rise to this [Soviet] system that was supposed to be more or less the devil's work. It's disconcerting to read what he had to say and see that a lot of it was very human and very decent and didn't seem to be the work of the devil at all.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.