Quotes: Criticism of the Founders of Materialistic Economics (Srila Prabhupada)

Aquinas

Hayagriva disa: Aquinas did not make Augustine's sharp distinction... between secular society and the city of God.

Srila Prabhupida: ...In the material world, there is no happiness, but the transcendental bliss and happiness existing in the spiritual world are reflected here. Unintelligent people chase after this illusory happiness, forgetting the real happiness that is in spiritual life.

Locke

Syamasundara dasa: Locke also says that all men are born free and equal in the state of nature and that they have formed a social contract; therefore the government must be based on and subject to the mutual consent of all the citizens.

Srila Prabhupada: That agreement can be reached when everyone is situated on the spiritual platform. On the material platform, people are subject to the three modes of material nature: goodness, passion, and ignorance.

Marx

Srila Prabhupada: The proposition that everyone will be satisfied by increasing production is a proposition for animals… Perhaps Marx was thinking like that because he was coming from a country where people were starving... Happiness is in understanding the truths given in Bhagavad-gita.