Robert Heilbroner Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

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

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

You cannot be a modern man and be a Marxist.

Marxist ideology is wrong, but I have known many good people who are Marxists.

Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

Marxism is what has seduced American liberals - well, liberals worldwide, communists, all leftists.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations steadfastly hewed to the very course which he insisted would lead to their undoing.

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

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.

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.

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.

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion — how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.