Marxism Quotes · Page 7

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

— Irving Berlin

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

— Ernest Mandel

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of…

— Bernard Crick

In brainwashing communism deceit lies manipulation marxism socialism truth A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Scientific’ Marxism is dead. Its feeling of social responsibility and its love for freedom must survive.”

— Karl R. Popper

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

— Paul Johnson

When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

— William O'Brien

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

— Edward Abbey

“one must occasionally stand the world on its head in order to put it on its feet.”

— Henning Mankell

“The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a…

— Terry Eagleton

“...people are no longer interested in analysis. They all prefer catharsis now. They all prefer to say that they are helpless and…

— Sarah Schulman

“The modern proletariat was not led by the social-democracy into class struggle. On the contrary, the international social-democratic movement was called into…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he…

— Che Guevara

No self-respecting person who loves humanity or wishes for a world of greater equality and justice should have anything to do with…

— Anthony Gregory

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and…

— James P. Cannon

Unlike Marxism, the Leninist one-party state is not a philosophy. It is a mechanism for holding power. It works because it clearly…

— Anne Applebaum

“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires…

— Michael Foot

“The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by…

— Jaron Lanier

I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of…

— Che Guevara

“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave…

— Leon Trotsky

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European…

— Masha Gessen

“Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But here a rather remarkable fact comes…

— C.S. Lewis

If we look at it more from a philosophical standpoint, these foundations of atheism and secular humanism believe that you are your…

— Ted Cruz

Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well…

— Graham Greene

“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true…

— Thomas Sankara

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious…

— Tony Benn

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

— Lionel Blue

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting…

— Lionel Blue

“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. [ In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which…

— Karl Marx

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

— Murray Bookchin

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.”

— Harold Bloom

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

— Pansy Schneider-Horst

“The Marxist maxim is 'agitate, agitate, agitate', and that is precisely what today's reds are doing with race.”

— Paul Kengor

“Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Proposed Roads to Freedom In this book Russell weighs the respective advantages and disadvantages of Socialism, Marxism and Syndicalism.”

— John Stuart Mill

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

— Mao Zedong

Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the…

— Julian Critchley

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

— P. J. O'Rourke