Marxist Quotes

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

— Joan Robinson

I am not a Marxist.

— Karl Marx

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

— Karl Marx

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

— Fidel Castro

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

— Eric Hoffer

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

— Ahmed Ben Bella

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

— Tom Metzger

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

— Mamata Banerjee

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.

— Dorothy Day

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

— Che Guevara

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

— Karl Marx

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as…

— Helen Foster Snow

I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be…

— Jane Smiley

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

— Lee Grant

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

— Cornel West

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

— Vladimir Lenin

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not…

— Friedrich Engels

“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

You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either…

— Jonah Goldberg

Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today,…

— Stephen Harper

That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution…

— Nikita Khrushchev

From the outset, when [Ho Chi Minh] became a member of the French Communist Party in 1920, he was an independent thinker…

— William J. Duiker

What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

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

— Slavoj Zizek

If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push…

— Noam Chomsky

“The fact is that the system in the metropole reproduces itself through an ongoing offensive against the people’s psyche, not in an…

— Red Army Faction

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

— Ivan Bagramyan

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and…

— Claud Cockburn

It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can…

— Mao Zedong

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole,…

— William T. Vollmann

We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.

— Sun Yat-sen

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

— Christopher Hitchens

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

— Dinesh D'Souza

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is…

— Glenn Beck