Marxism Quote by Harold Bloom

“Marxism claims, above all, to be a ‘scientific’ philosophy, one which applies the principles of science to politics and society.”

— Jasper Becker

“Scientific’ Marxism is dead. Its feeling of social responsibility and its love for freedom must survive.”

— Karl R. Popper

“Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the…

— Arundhati Roy

“Marxism was a simple substitute for Christianity. Replace God with Marx, Satan with the bourgeoisie, Heaven with a classless society, the Church with the…

— Arundhati Roy

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

— Albert Camus

“Marx concocted his heresy in a time in which greatly increased knowledge of nature had, as we remarked earlier, sent Nature’s God into the…

— Revilo P. Oliver

“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.”

— FOUCAULT MICHEL

“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its contingency.”

— Jacques Monod

The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

“Marxists want nothing more than to stop being Marxists. In this respect, being a Marxist is nothing like being a Buddhist or a billionaire.”

— Terry Eagleton

“Terrible things are done in the name of religion, without a doubt, but it was not religion but science that brought the world itself…

— Chris Beckett

“Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.”

— Joseph Campbell