[jmherbener]

I can’t find this quote online to read the context. Can you provide a link to it?

Here is the only Rogers’s quote on Marx that I could find:

http://jimrogers-investments.blogspot.com/2010/05/karl-marx-is-probably-dancing-somewhere.html

The statement in the quote you give is just a commonplace: people with wealth influence politics, culture, etc. Such a view is not, then, distinctly Marxist. If Marx repeated commonplace truths, then he got those things right.

Here is one thing Marx wrote about money:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/power.htm

If Marx repeated commonplace truths, then he got those things right. But the things that are distinctly Marxist are wrong.

Here is Rothbard on Marx:

http://mises.org/journals/rae/pdf/rae4_1_5.pdf