Analysis Quote by Tony Benn

“By sanctifying History in order to discredit God, Marxism has merely rendered Him more peculiar and more haunting. You can stifle every impulse in…

— E. M. Cioran

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in…

— Vladimir Putin

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

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

— Albert Camus

Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Marxism was and is a class analysis, pitting economic classes against each other in a zero-sum competition. In that competition, the stronger parties would…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt Soviet propaganda…

— Allen W. Wood

[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

That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Michael Foot

We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it…

— Amor Towles