Karl Marx Quotes
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
This was written in 1933 one of the worst years of the Great Depression. Actualy many upper middle calss and rich people were ruined themselves by the Great Depression, but at the same time the ultra rich were living in a "gildd age" and reveled ostentatiously.
Most people who hear this quote for the first time assume that it originates with some radical socialist of the 1930s. However it came from a President of the United States and a Republican President at that. Few scholars will place this quotation correctly.
Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
The Supreme Court had ruled that there could be no limits placed on the amount of money that could be spent by a rich company or person to campaign for a candidate. It would deny them their right to freedom of speech. That was the context of Hollings’ remark.
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the reading room of the British Museum. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
