Sentence examples for marx from inspiring English sources

One of the rare domestic pictures shows a striker's home, the tattooed miner with his feet up by the fire, his pre-teenage son reading a pamphlet called How your benefit is worked out, his wife watching Arthur Scargill on the TV, with a reproduction of Constable's Hay Wain on one wall opposite a poster of Marx with his quote "Philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it".

"I began to wonder a few years ago where was the hard data behind all the theories about inequality, from Marx to David Ricardo (the 19th-century English economist and advocate of free trade) and more contemporary thinkers.

Dubost and Carette play a deliciously sly and comic cat-and-mouse game with the absurdly rigid Modot, especially during the after-dinner entertainment, a breathtaking sequence described by the critic Richard Roud as something from "a Marx brothers film scripted by a Feydeau who suddenly acquired a tragic sense".

Marx's critique of capitalism was not about distribution but production: for Marx it was not rising inequality but a breakdown in the profit mechanism that drove the system towards its end.

We passed another open space – this one filled with about 2,000 soldiers doing an aggressive, synchronized taekwondo routine under two large portraits of Marx and Lenin.

Their libraries and institutes welcomed Engels and his friend, Marx.

The blog includes picture of him on a private jet with the late South African leader Nelson Mandela, and a detailed account of a 2010 encounter with Vladimir Putin who, he said, told him he looked like Karl Marx.

Karl Marx was a bookish gent with a huge bushy beard but that has not stopped his image decorating many a student bedroom down the years.

Silvio Berlusconi – never one for sticking to the script – seems bent on inverting the process that Karl Marx identified: that everything in history occurs twice, "the first time as tragedy; the second as farce".

In short, the arguments have centred on two poles: the first is a tradition that begins with Karl Marx, who believed that capitalism would self-destruct in the endless pursuit of diminishing profit returns.

What are critics saying about her? "A client said to me a few weeks ago that if Karl Marx was in charge of the world, he'd have Janet Yellen as his central bank governor," said Bob Janjuah, global head of tactical asset allocation for the Japanese Nomura Group.