Some of Marx's followers of the present day have attempted to harmonize their master's contradictory statements, or at least to show that there is still a remnant of truth in the venerable theory, but our author finds little difficulty in exposing the futility of these attempts.
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William A. Scott and Sigmund Fielbogen, translators, in their preface to Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk’s Recent Literature on Interest (1903), London, MacMillan & Co, p. xxxixKarl Marx
If we agree that the Bible is a work of collective authorship, only Mohammed rivals Marx in the number of professed and devoted followers recruited by a single author. And the competition is not really very close. The followers of Marx far outnumber the sons of the Prophet.
Karl Marx
The Marxist theory of history, in spite of the serious efforts of some of its founders and followers, ultimately adopted this soothsaying practice [of evading testability]. In some of its earlier formulations (for example in Marx's analysis of the character of the 'coming social revolution') their predictions were testable, and in fact falsified. Yet instead of accepting the refutations the followers of Marx re-interpreted both the theory and the evidence in order to make them agree. In this way they rescued the theory from refutation; but they did so at the price of adopting a device which made it irrefutable. They thus gave a 'conventionalist twist' to the theory; and by this stratagem they destroyed its much advertised claim to scientific status.
Karl Marx
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
I didn't think it was right for superheroes to be burdened with real world problems, I was more interested in going into their world, I wanted to find out what it was like in there, where the sky was always blue and where everything was primary coloured, where time was represented by boxes and you can cut between one moment and ten years over the space of a gutter...so again this why I thought my agenda and my projects were so different, because I felt that (Alan) Moore brought the grit and grim into super heroes' lives, it was about harming them, kind of messing them up and exposing their futility and fragility, and to me I don't want to expose the fragility and futility of one of the last great forms that we have. (2010, on Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods)
Grant Morrison
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
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