Force Quote by Jonah Goldberg

“Hitler deserves to be placed firmly on the left because first first and foremost he was a revolutionary. Broadly speaking, the left is the…

— Jonah Goldberg

I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures…

— Margaret Thatcher

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

— Noam Chomsky

In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society. Marx gets…

— Cynthia Kauffman

“And Leites and Wolf were wrong. “It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

— Michael Foot

“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

Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a…

— Louis O. Kelso

“The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone…

— Boris Pasternak

We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered…

— Joseph Stalin

“socialism preceded Marxism, and socialism has survived Marxism, in part because Marxism was subjected to a real-world test for nearly a century and failed…

— Jonah Goldberg

His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty…

— Hannah Arendt