Executive producer Doug Berman said in 2012, " The guys are culturally right up there with Mark Twain and the Marx Brothers.

The show's creators, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez, have said that the Coleman character is a personification of one of Avenue Qs central themes: that as children we are told we are " special ", but upon entering adulthood we discover that life is not nearly as easy as we have been led to believe.

Once, at a restaurant ( the most common location of Groucho's antics ), a fan came up to him and said, " Excuse me, but aren't you Groucho Marx?

Marx is said to have declared that on the whole, he was just trying to straighten out G. W. F.

In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said, " I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe.

In his 1997 interview with Arthur Marx in Cigar Aficionado magazine, Falk said " One evening when I arrived late, she looked at me and asked, ' Young man, why are you always late?

Karl Marx, in an interview by R. Landor from 1871, said that Mazzini's ideas represented " nothing better than the old idea of a middle-class republic.

The term " permanent revolution " is taken from a remark of Marx from his March 1850 Address: " it is our task ", Marx said,

Karl Marx said: " The campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws had begun and the workers ' help was needed.

Herbert Spencer ( 1884 ) ( and Karl Marx ) said that the times produce the person and not the other way around.

Allen said that everyone found it charmingly ironic that the comedian Harpo Marx, having been mute on stage and screen for several decades, " wouldn't shut up!

Harpo's death was said to have hit the surviving Marx brothers very hard.

Groucho's son Arthur Marx, who attended the funeral with most of the Marx family, later said that Harpo's funeral was the only time in his life that he ever saw his father cry.

Groucho Marx once said that Chico never practiced the pieces he played.

" Gummo Marx, in an interview years after Chico's death, said: " Chico's favorite people were actors who gambled, producers who gambled, and women who screwed.

Groucho Marx, star of A Day at the Races, said, " after Thalberg's death, my interest in the movies waned.

Allen has said that he told Morton to " play the part like Harpo Marx.

And she said, ' Who is Harpo Marx?

He played many classical roles on stage, appearing at London's top theatres, making his name on the stage performing works by George Bernard Shaw, who said that Hardwicke was his fifth favourite actor after the four Marx Brothers.

Nonetheless, such a teleological ( goal-oriented ) reading of Karl Marx, supported by Alexandre Kojève before the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ), was criticized by Louis Althusser in his discussion of “ random materialism ” ( matérialisme aléatoire ), in which he said that such a teleological reading rendered the proletariat as the subject of history ; therefore, such an interpretation was tainted with Hegelian idealism, with the “ philosophy of the subject ”, that had been in force for five centuries, which he criticized as the “ bourgeois ideology of philosophy ”.

In Part I: “ Feuerbach — Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook ” of The German Ideology ( 1846 ), Karl Marx said: “ things have now come to such a pass that the individuals must appropriate the existing totality of productive forces, not only to achieve self-activity, but also, merely to safeguard their very existence ”.

In Chapter 4 of The Holy Family ( 1845 ), Karl Marx said that capitalists and proletarians are equally alienated, but that each social class experiences alienation in a different form:

In July 2005, 27. 9 % of listeners in a BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time poll selected Marx as their favorite thinker.

* Marx l ' intempestif: Grandeurs et misres d ' une aventure critique ( Fayard 1996 ); English translation: Marx for Our Times ( Verso 2002 )

: The Nielsen ratings of the top ten radio shows seemed to indicate that not much has changed in radio: 1 ) Jack Benny Show ( CBA ), 2 ) Amos ' n ' Andy ( CBS ), 3 ) People are Funny ( NBC ), 4 ) Our Miss Brooks ( CBS ) 5 ) Lux Radio Theater ( NBC ), 6 ) My Little Margie ( CBS ), 7 ) Dragnet ( NBC ), 8 ) FBI in Peace and War ( CBS ), 9 ) Bergen and McCarthy ( CBS ), 10 ) Groucho Marx ( NBC ).

Making his debut in 1911, Kennedy appeared in about 500 films, working with some of the biggest film comedians in the United States, including Roscoe Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Charley Chase, and the Our Gang series.

Following the government-imposed shutdown of the Rheinische Zeitung, Marx got involved with a new radical newspaper, the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher ( German-French Annals ), which was then being set up by Arnold Ruge, another German socialist revolutionary.

After the collapse of the Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, Marx, still living on the Rue Vaneau, began writing for what was then the only uncensored German-language radical newspaper in Europe, Vorwärts !.

Four years later, seminary professors Alexander Marx, Louis Ginzberg and Saul Lieberman went public with their rebuke by writing a letter to the Hebrew newspaper Hadoar, lambasting Kaplan's prayer book and his entire career as a rabbi.

In October 1843, Karl Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen arrived in Paris after the Prussian government had suppressed Marx's radical newspaper.

By 1849, Marx and Engels are able to quote the use of the phrase by other writers (' Schwanbeck ', a journalist on the Kölnische Zeitung newspaper and Henri Druey ), suggesting that it had achieved some recognition in intellectual circles.

The next mention of fetishism was in the 1842 Rheinische Zeitung newspaper articles about the " Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood ", wherein Marx spoke of the Spanish fetishism of gold and the German fetishism of wood as commodities:

The Rheinische Zeitung (" Rhenish Newspaper ") was a 19th-century German newspaper, edited most famously by Karl Marx.

The paper was eventually succeeded by a daily newspaper launched by Karl Marx on behalf of the Communist League in June 1848, called the Neue Rheinische Zeitung (" New Rhenish Newspaper ").

Marx would return to Cologne during the first half of April 1848, amidst the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states and immediately began to make preparations to establish a new — and more radical — newspaper.

Bebel, along with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Ferdinand Lassalle, was among the socialist icons included in bas relief portraits on the facade of the The Forward building, erected in 1912 as the headquarters of the New York Yiddish-language socialist newspaper.

This article was reviewed by Karl Marx and Fredeerick Engels in a jointly written article carried in their newspaper -- Neue Rheinisch Zeitung Politisch-Ökonomische Revue No. 4.

Marx regularly wrote a regular column called " Record of the Revolutionary International Movement " for the Socialist League's monthly newspaper, Commonweal.

It was around that time that he became a Marxist, and began collaborating with the socialist journalist Evtim Dabev, whom he aided in printing works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ( at the time, Rakovsky and Sava Balabanov also published their own newspaper, the clandestine Zerkalo ).

By 1920 he was chief editor of that newspaper, a position first held by Karl Marx.

As correspondent for the " Rheinische Zeitung ", a radical newspaper founded by liberal Rhenish businessmen ( and for which Karl Marx also worked ), he lived in Paris, fleeing to Belgium and Switzerland temporarily following the suppression of the 1848 commune and again during the Franco-Prussian war.

The Marx Brothers exploited the situation for publicity, making it appear to the public that a frivolous lawsuit was in the works, and Groucho sent several open letters to Warner Bros. to get newspaper coverage.

* Spartacus, a defunct underground newspaper published by the left-wing Dutch anti-Nazi resistance group, Marx – Lenin – Luxemburg Front