Robert Heilbroner - Marx Quotes

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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.

Robert Heilbroner

Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.

Robert Heilbroner

The book was called Imperialism; it was a devastating volume. For here was the most important and searing criticism which had ever been levied against the profit system. The worst that Marx had claimed was that the system would destroy itself; what Hobson suggested was that it might destroy the world.

Robert Heilbroner

But like Marx, Veblen badly underestimated the capacity of a democratic system to correct its own excesses.

Robert Heilbroner

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

Robert Heilbroner