Communist Quote by Max Weber

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.”

— Walter Benjamin

“According to the materialist conception of history, the ultimately determining element in history is the production and reproduction of real life.”

— Friedrich Engels

“Modernism, philosophically speaking, is in a sense the ‘‘worship’’ of time and the transient, a kind of deification of time and becoming and all…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and…

— Antonio Gramsci

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

— Theodor Adorno

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

— Emile M. Cioran

The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or…

— Eric Voegelin

“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this view, is…

— Ernest Gellner

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender social institutions,…

— Ludwig von Mises

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel