A quotation from one of the most influential American sociologists may indicate the standing of Marxism. "Marx", wrote Albion Small in 1912, "was one of the few really great thinkers in the history of social science... I do not think that Marx added to social science a single formula which will be final in the terms in which he expressed it. In spite of that I confidently predict that in the ultimate judgment of history Marx will have a place in social science analogous to Galileo in physical science".
Eric Hobsbawm
1917 - 2012