Karl Marx Quotes

“The same politicians who demand the abolition of all impediments to the mobility of goods and services have been busily erecting mighty barriers to rebuff an accompanying wave of human beings. In”
― Francis Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

“the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.”
― Francis Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

“Marx’s work has often been dismissed as ‘crude dogma’, usually by people who give no evidence of having read him.”
― Francis Wheen, Karl Marx

“As capitalism matured, he predicted, we would see periodic recessions, an ever-growing dependence on technology and the growth of huge, quasi-monopolistic corporations, spreading their sticky tentacles all over the world in search of new markets to exploit.”
― Francis Wheen, Karl Marx

“There are 1.3 billion human beings in the world who subsist on less than a dollar a day and have yet to make their first phone call, let alone send an email. Is”
― Francis Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions

“In his study of eighteenth-century feelings, John Mullan argues that sentimental passion and sympathy offered ‘a more inclusive vocabulary of social coherence’ than politics could provide. This”
― Francis Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions