Marxism · Skopia

Quotes

6

Essay · Economic literature

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.

John Maynard Keynes

The End of Laissez-faire · 1926

★ 3.5

Economic literature · Historical literature

Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy · 1942

★ 3.5

Economic literature · Historical literature

In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

Joseph Schumpeter

1942

★ 3.5

Economic literature · Historical literature

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy · 1942

★ 2.0

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Books

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The Opium of the Intellectuals

1955★ 5.9