Marxist Quotes · Page 2

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

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Bill Livant

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Pansy Schneider-Horst

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

— Victor Sebestyen

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

— Mamata Banerjee

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

— Camille Paglia

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of…

— Karen DeCrow

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the…

— George Will

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace…

— Jon Voight

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman…

— Roland Joffe

If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong,…

— Fidel Castro

We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to…

— Dorothy Day

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will…

— Mark Helprin

It's beyond me how anybody can look at these protestors and call them anything other than what they are: anti-American, anticapitalist, pro-Marxist…

— Rush Limbaugh

The American People are witnessing the greatest lie that is cleverly orchestrated by President Obama and his whole administration. President Obama feeds…

— Jon Voight

“In other words, low growth cannot adequately counterbalance the Marxist principle of infinite accumulation: the resulting equilibrium is not as apocalyptic as…

— Thomas Piketty

“Oh, he shouldn't be surprised, he's a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is…

— Robert Coover

On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to…

— Felix Houphouet-Boigny

With health care, once you set yourself up as the source for people's health care, not insurance, you own them. That way…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Lucien Goldmann has stated the central problem of Marxist aesthetics in the period of advanced capitalism. If the proletariat is not the…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Marxist writers are generally either indifferent or mildly hostile to the anti-capitalist movement, which they see as no good substitute for the…

— Jeremy Gilbert

An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in…

— Michel Foucault

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

— Dorothy Day

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

— Slavoj Žižek

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

— Milton Friedman

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

— Tom Metzger

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

— Adolf Hitler

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

— Nick Cohen

Obama is ratcheting up his class warfare to levels that would make Marxists blush.

— David Limbaugh

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

— Lee Grant

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

— Mao Zedong

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

— Fidel Castro

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Ahmed Ben Bella

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

— Sun Yat-sen

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

— Carl Andre

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms…

— Ira Sachs

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

— Mao Zedong