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The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war. — Francis Parker Yockey

Society reproduces itself antagonistically. — Rudolf J. Siebert

Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism. — Ayn Rand

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] — Karl Marx

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. — P. J. O'Rourke

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order. — Adolf Hitler

[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

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism. — Mao Zedong

A society whose members are helpless need idols. — Erich Fromm

Who has the time to become politically active, or even politically aware, when one is struggling just to stay alive and feed one's children? — Lois Tyson

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species — Edward O. Wilson

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. — Terry Eagleton

I am not a
commodity! And neither are they! I
wish for once you would look at me
and see a person.- Maxon — Kiera Cass

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist. — Eric Hoffer

Socialism is a monster, which will die. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke

Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. — Rosa Luxemburg

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers. — Slavoj Zizek

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. — C.L.R. James

Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else. — FOUCAULT MICHEL

Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

One must occasionally stand the world on
its head in order to put it on its feet. — Henning Mankell

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt. — Francis Wheen

In the same way Marxism robs workers of ambition, Feminism robs men and women of love. — Stefan Molyneux

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. — Edward Abbey

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. — Fidel Castro

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God. — Ernesto Cardenal

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. — Douglas Sirk

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century. — A.E. Samaan

It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary. — Orlando Figes

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical. — Ernest Mandel

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths — Tony Benn

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. — John McCarthy

When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary. — Shane Claiborne

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution. — Joseph Stalin

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism. — Joseph Stalin

Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy. — Harold Bloom

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority. — Bernard Crick

The moral and intellectual failure of Marxism has left us with no alternative to heroic materialism, and that isn't enough. — Kenneth Clark

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common denominator. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism ... — Catharine MacKinnon

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. — Camille Paglia

Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference. — Jurgen Habermas

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl. — Irving Berlin

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals — Edmund Wilson

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. — Terry Eagleton

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. — Terry Eagleton

Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He's waiting for science - he wants to be revived. — Andrei Platonov

When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite. — Sergio Leone

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills ... Take control of your world. — Warren Ellis

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — Mao Zedong

The fact that people are massed anonymously together may be in one sense an alienation, but in another sense it is a condition of their emancipation. — Terry Eagleton

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is. — Bob Black

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules. — Paul Johnson

You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.
— Ernesto Cardenal

The Jewish doctrine of Marxism — Adolf Hitler

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified. — Mao Zedong

Some call it Marxism - I call it Judaism. — Genrikh Yagoda

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

[Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come. — Eric Voegelin

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society. — Karl Marx

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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

Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. — Andrey Illarionov

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism. — Vladimir Lenin

You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal. — J.S.B. Morse

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid. — Julie Rivkin

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men. — Enver Hoxha

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

The trouble with Marxism is that it takes up too many evenings. — Oscar Wilde

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it — Karl Marx

Proposed Roads to Freedom
In this book Russell weighs the respective advantages and disadvantages of Socialism, Marxism and Syndicalism. — John Stuart Mill

Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans. — E. O. Wilson

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs. — Terry Eagleton

Besides, he grew up in the city of the poor. You know as well as I do that in this country Marxism is a religious passion of the middle class. — Mark Helprin

We must have a human approach. As far as socioeconomic theory, I am Marxist. — Dalai Lama XIV

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. — Lionel Blue

Sea Shepherd is to terrorism what Groucho was to Marxism. — Paul Watson

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy. — Reinhold Niebuhr

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him. — Christopher Hitchens

You call democracy freedom.
I call it corporation. — Jeffrey Fischer

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism — Niall Ferguson

Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists. — A.E. Samaan

Political correctness is a war on noticing. — Steve Sailer

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself. — Mikhail Bakunin

The Communist Manifesto as political rhetoric has an almost biblical force. — Eric Hobsbawm

Don't tell them you're not a Marxist, darling, we saw Duck Soup together at the Rialto just last week. — Pansy Schneider-Horst

Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism. — Enver Hoxha

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid. — Mason Cooley

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE — Ernesto Cardenal

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. — Ezra Pound

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

The right to make revolution is unconditional, for it alone establishes right. — Stathis Kouvelakis

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures. — Terry Eagleton

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing — Adolf Hitler

History is not an escalator. — Max Eastman

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King Jr.