“Marxism in this country had even been an eccentric and quixotic passion. One oppressed class after another had seemed finally to miss… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew… — Jose Padilha Copy Share Image
“The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
“In liberation theology, Marxism is never treated as a subject on its own but always from and in relation to the poor.… — Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff Copy Share Image
“Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must daily reproduce a value… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“I should say that it was only for me that Marxism seemed over. Surely, I would tell G. at least once a… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary… — J. P. Nettl Copy Share Image
The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Orthodox Marxism, therefore, does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx’s investigations. It is not the ‘belief’ in this… — György Lukács Copy Share Image
The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“What we are dealing with here is another version of the Lacanian ' il n'y a pas de rapport ...': if, for… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“As everyone who has read the Marxists critically has not failed to see... the gospel of St. Marx is just the old… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
“The modern-day ultra-Left ideology of “Cultural Marxism” takes yesterday’s Soviet Marxist-Leninist model and stands it on its head. Revolution on this alternative… — Robert Chandler Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pretty word. Democracy is a captivating magic. The oppressed classes always wanted and the oppressing ones always promised a… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism]… — Myron Coureval Fagan Copy Share Image
“The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society.… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
“Beneath the pseudo-scientific terminology one can in each case recognize a phantasy of which almost every element is to be found in… — Norman Cohn Copy Share Image
“Humankind does not submit passively to the power of nature. It takes control over this power. This process is not an internal… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard.… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
“The contribution Marxism made to the socialism from which it arose was to offer a pseudo-scientific gloss to the ill-defined urges and… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
If you think communism is too hard a word - necessitates for government to be your god. And for government to be… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
“Marxism is not necessarily what Karl Marx wrote in Das Kapital, but whatever it is that all the warring sects believe, who… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image