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.....What is dead in Karl Marx is his communist utopia of a classless and stateless society as well as his utopian and potentially dangerous idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat. . . .
.....What is not dead in Karl Marx is his critical insights into alienation and reification phenomena, ideology, the economic dimension of social classes, capitalism. There is no way to avoid recognizing that Marx was pretty successful in his critical but not in his constructivist approach, and that radical conclusions ought to be drawn from that. For instance, I do not buy his rejection of a market economy.
..........— Svetozar Stojanovic professor of philosophy and social theory (University of Belgrade & University of Kansas, Lawrence), author. "The Survival of Humanism Is the Basic Humanist Value: An Interview with Svetozar Stojanovic" by Paul Kurtz, Free Inquiry (Summer 1996).
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