Eric Roll vs. Karl Marx
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Eric Roll
1907 – 2005
Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden was a British academic economist, public servant and banker. He was made a life peer in 1977.
"Robbed of a foundation of political philosophy on which it had based itself, economics is in great danger of becoming a plaything of demagogy."
Karl Marx
1867 – 1894
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto, and his three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1894), a critique of classical political economy which employs his theory of historical materialism in an analysis of capitalism, in the culmination of his life's work. Marx's ideas and their subsequent development, collectively known as Marxism, have had enormous influence.
"In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between …"
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