“Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.” ImportantScienceEconomicFoodTheoryImportant ThingsMotiveRootedMarxism Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.” HumansWisdomPoliticalPoliticsMistakeClassEconomyEconomicHuman NatureTheoryDevelopmentIllusionRegardAssumingPropertyRussiaLiberalismConceptionHistoricMarxismEgotismPrivate PropertyPolitical PowerMarxistSocializationRefutationMarxist Theory Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.” WorldMillionsStruggleHeardCenturyTheoryGeniusCapitalismDoctrineCommunismCommunistSocialistMarxismNineteenth Century Book:Lenin on Literature and Art Source: Lenin on Literature and Art
“Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.” ActionPoliticalTheoryGlobal WarmingMarxismCompliancePolitical Theory Author:Paul Johnson
“Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.” HumansHas BeensIdeasWarValuesChoicesHuman BeingsVisionPovertyExpressionTheoryModelsCapitalismBuiltLaborEntrepreneurWorkersProfitSocialismOppressionChainsConsumersIronyMotiveAbundanceAestheticCapitalistLeisureProvenPredictionsIncentivesMonopolyMarxismLiberatedMillenniumProfit MotiveProven WrongConsumer Choice Author:Mark Skousen