Joe Weisberg Quotes

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

I never read Karl Marx.

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

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.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

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 Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

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.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

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

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

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

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

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.

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.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

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

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.

Communism is nonsense.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

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

The doctrines of Karl Marx are a destroyer of all mortals.

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.