Murray Rothbard Quotes

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

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 Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.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 am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

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.

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.

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income.

Mrs Thatcher was a mirror-image Marxist. Everything that Marx abhorred she thought was good

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

Capitalism still wants to beat socialism in the end.

Communism was not only defined as the things that Marx and Lenin had advocated, but included anything that had the potential for change in the society.

Marx is the prophet of globalized capitalism.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's 'bold new imaginative program' with its proper age?" Reagan wondered. "Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx.

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

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed

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

I'm a Marxist.

I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.