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There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Keynes's contribution was not just to advocate spending government money in the middle of a recession. Every government had done that going back to the days of the Irish potato famine. What he gave to us was a way of thinking about the magnitude and the dimensions and so forth.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.

Keynes eliminated economic theory's ancient role as spoilsport for inflationist and statist schemes, leading a new generation of economists on to academic power and to political pelf and privilege.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.