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If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia,… — Jose Padilha
As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it… — B. Carroll Reece
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the… — James P. Cannon
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a… — P.D. James
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of… — George Steiner
I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the… — Tony Judt
Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. — Vladimir Lenin
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold MacMillan
There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. — P.J. O'Rourke
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of… — Steven Pinker
Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an… — Jose Saramago
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. — Edmund Wilson
The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl. — Irving Berlin
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every… — Rosa Luxemburg
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and… — Vladimir Lenin
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is… — Ludwig von Mises
The way people get their living determines their social outlook. — Karl Marx
When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. — Shane Claiborne
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. — Terry Eagleton
Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. — Terry Eagleton
Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. — Terry Eagleton
I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with… — Karl Popper

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