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“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. [ In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882 ]” quote by Karl Marx — Download Open image

““If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. [ In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882 ]””

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“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own…

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way…

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Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

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As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor…

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Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the…

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It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

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Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex

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“Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!”

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“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become…

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Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of…

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The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

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Ideas do not exist separately from language.

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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Harold MacMillan

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Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism.

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The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I…

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“Britta wanted to try to turn a guard. Tamara thought it was idiotic. “What are you going to do? Buy him beer and tell him about Kropotkin?” I envisioned the conversation: Vanguard: Wage Slave, are you aware that you are but a wire nail in the toolbox of capitalism? Wage Slave: I thought I was a chisel. Vanguard: No, the…

Vanessa Veselka

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of…

Reinhold Niebuhr

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is;…

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Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

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If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Time is the ultimate form of socialism. Each receives the same amount equally, yet how we manage our time is reflected by our lives. We all can agree, no one comes out equal. For a country to govern by socialism will fail as there will always be the weak and strong. Social justice is fantasy. Nothing can be equal in…

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