Actualization Quote by Walter Benjamin

Marriage civilizes males by making them responsible for their children and by imposing on boys the need to develop the bourgeois habits of self-discipline…

— Heather Mac Donald

“The way people used to kiss before the age of historical materialism.”

— Ilya Ilf

The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

— Nancy Hartsock

I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical…

— Murray Bookchin

“The form of family corresponding to civilization and coming to definite supremacy with it is monogamy, the domination of the man over the woman,…

— Frederick Engels

“The separation between the Man of Labour and the Instruments of Labout once established, such a state of things will maintain itself and reproduce…

— Karl Marx

“The modern proletariat was not led by the social-democracy into class struggle. On the contrary, the international social-democratic movement was called into being by…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills,…

— Friedrich Engels

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man,…

— Leon Trotsky

“In nineteenth century Europe (and later in other parts of the world) the transition from a subsistence to a market economy based on the…

— Eleanor Burke Leacock

“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour declared: in…

— Rosa Luxemburg

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

— Friedrich Engels