Robert Paul Wolff Quotes

Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly an...

Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly an...

Robert Paul Wolff

Tags: chrisitianity, karl marx, nietzsche, socialism

It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.

Robert Paul Wolff

It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.

Robert Paul Wolff

Tags: avarice, rich

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Robert Paul Wolff (born December 27, 1933) is an American political philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Wolff has written widely on topics in political philosophy, including Marxism, tolerance (against liberalism and in favor of anarchism), political justification, and democracy.