Intellectuals Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure ... Like, why did Paris Commune go wrong?…

— Slavoj Zizek

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

— Whittaker Chambers

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

— Noam Chomsky

“But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance of their…

— Nelson Mandela

“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals,…

— Roger Scruton

I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.

— Robert Nozick

“...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.”

— Louis Althusser

“The trouble with Marxism is that it takes up too many evenings.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I should say that it was only for me that Marxism seemed over. Surely, I would tell G. at least once a week, it…

— Katha Pollitt

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception…

— Leon Trotsky

“Lucitta knew Russian politics, and discussed how Trotsky was compelled by Stalin’s régime to deny many of his beliefs. It seemed that Mella, believing…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

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

— James P. Cannon