Political Economics

🇩🇪Karl Marx

Philosophy

Materialism

1867–1894

"I have just noticed in the 2nd edition of The Times that the Prussian Second Chamber has finally done something worthwhile. We shall soon have revolution."

🇺🇸Richard D. Wolff

Economics

b. 1942

"Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society"

🇺🇸Albert O. Hirschman

Economics

1915–2012

"Exit and voice, that is, market and non­ market forces, that is, economic and political mechanisms, have been introduced as two principal actors of strictly equal rank and importance."

🇺🇸Michael Parenti

Science

Marxism

1933–2026

"The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order."

"And knowing that in every specific battle, what we are fighting for is merely the substitution of the human agenda for the corporate agenda is what can guide and sustain us."

🇺🇸Arthur Laffer

Economics

supply-side economics

b. 1940

"Rise the minimum wage is the best way of hurting the poor."

🇫🇷Isidore Isou

Literature

Surrealism

1925–2007

"The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us."