Robert Gilpin Quotes

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

The problem is capitalism. The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

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.

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

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

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

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.

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.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

Labor is, on the one hand, more and more furnished by a class; Property or Capital, on the other, held and controlled by another class. Here you have workers without property—the proletariat. There you have property without work—or capital…. The workers without property are excluded from their products, from the riches they create—which accumulate in the hands of the property holders, capitalists and large land-owners.

Karl Marx is not a very popular figure any more but once in a while he said something very sensible.

Marx is the prophet of globalized capitalism.

Marxism does not make sense, and I am the first one to say this

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

I'm a Marxist.

Taken as a whole, the work of Marx, at the same times it shows the thesis of the growing pauperization of the non-propertied classes, relativizes it when contemplating the possibility that the class struggles result in distributive effects.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

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.

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

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.

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.