Marxist Quotes · Page 2

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

— Adolf Hitler

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

— Jose Bergamin

“When a liberal sees a beggar, he says the system isn't working. When a Marxist does, he says it is”

— Bill Livant

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

— Noam Chomsky

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

— Margaret Thatcher

In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.

— Catharine MacKinnon

“There are plenty of Marxist-Leninist textbooks about taking power; but there are none about giving it up.”

— Victor Sebestyen

“Don't tell them you're not a Marxist, darling, we saw Duck Soup together at the Rialto just last week.”

— Pansy Schneider-Horst

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people…

— Cornel West

“I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and…

— Yanis Varoufakis

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that…

— Claudio Hummes

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

— Raymond Aron

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Marxists want nothing more than to stop being Marxists. In this respect, being a Marxist is nothing like being a Buddhist or…

— Terry Eagleton

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the…

— Slavoj Žižek

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity…

— Vladimir Lenin

I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women…

— Margaret Thatcher

“As the Marxist movement splintered and mutated into new forms, Left intellectuals and activists began to look for new ways to attack…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“Marxist cults are both a culmination of the evolution of Christianity and a most impressive instance of the historical and social phenomenon…

— Revilo P. Oliver

“Notwithstanding the Marxist social workers, who like to maintain that it's so-called social deprivation rather than innate criminal tendencies which cause more…

— William Donaldson

The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the…

— Noam Chomsky

“For the Christian the environment can only truly be changed as men are changed, and these men then remake their world and…

— Rousas John Rushdoony

We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by…

— Ivan Bagramyan

We have to unmask this man [POTUS Obama]. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God - and…

— Rafael

Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.

— Paul Sweezy

In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.

— Paul Broun

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

— Herbert Read

“I´m a Marxist, all right, Groucho tendency, and a Leninist, Lennon tendency”

— Fernando Arrabal

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

— Joely Richardson

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

— Karl Marx

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

— Michael Foot

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

— Dalai Lama

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

— Nikita Khrushchev

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

— Marvin Olasky

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.

— Ed Miliband

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

— Michael Pare

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

— Don Feder

When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists.

— Murray Bookchin

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing…

— Slavoj Zizek

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to…

— Richard Dawkins