Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden - Marx Quotes

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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

The physiocrats started a train of thought which was a powerful stimulus to the development of a labour theory of value and surplus value. They did not, however develop such a theory of value themselves. What attention they gave to the problem of exchange-value and price produced results of an altogether different character. Thus while one of their contributions finds its continuation in Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, the other leads to the post-classical supply and demand and utility theories of value.

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