Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace…

“Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the…

— Arundhati Roy

I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.

— Howard Jacobson

“I don't think Communism will work--in the long run--any better than Christianity has done, and I'm not the Crusader type. Capitalism or Communism? Perhaps…

— Graham Greene

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

— Vladimir Lenin

“What the engineers had first seen in the October coup d'état was ruin. (And for three years there had been ruin and nothing else.)…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now…

— Michael Pollan

The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour declared: in…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financial and industrial processes. One was his…

— Paul Johnson

“By sanctifying History in order to discredit God, Marxism has merely rendered Him more peculiar and more haunting. You can stifle every impulse in…

— E. M. Cioran

“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary vehicle of…

— J. P. Nettl

“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which…

— Michael Burawoy

“Time is the ultimate form of socialism. Each receives the same amount equally, yet how we manage our time is reflected by our lives.…

— Donald Mol

“Marxism rejected the family and the state, but in practice it kept these institutions. Every pure religion disapproved of man's worrying about this world,…

— Alija Izetbegović