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Those who claim that Marx invented the ides of the class struggle should read not only his English socialist forerunners, but also a man like Burke.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

Marx's prognosis of the future of the capitalist system has often been understood to imply a fatalistic view. Marx's own life should be enough to show that this is not so. Marx did not regard man as the impotent plaything of supernatural; but he thought that man could not ignore the laws of physical nature.

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden