" we may safely predict that Marx himself will become more and more what he already is: a chapter from a textbook of the history of ideas, a figure that no longer evokes any emotions, simply the author of one of the 'great books' of the nineteenth century—one of those books that very few bother to read but whose titles are known to the educated public. "

― Leszek Kołakowski , Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown