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I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law. — Jane Smiley

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

Marxists want nothing more than to stop being Marxists. In this respect, being a Marxist is nothing like being a Buddhist or a billionaire. — Terry Eagleton

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society. — Michael Pare

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people. — Mamata Banerjee

I am aware I sound like a Marxist Victor Meldrew but, guess what, I'm over 50 and I don't give a fuck. — Mark Thomas

We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies. — Francisco Franco

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own. — Raymond Aron

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

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist. — Friedrich Engels

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. — Carl Andre

Chernobyl, an accident or the most successful anti-Marxist attack in recorded history? — Anders Breivik

In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist. — Catharine MacKinnon

Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views. — Ed Miliband

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world ... they're all in American universities. — Milton Friedman

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

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

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied. — William T. Vollmann

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun? — Don Feder

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left. — Ahmed Ben Bella

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand. — P. J. O'Rourke

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism. — Nick Cohen

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

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution. — Mao Zedong

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied. — Nikita Khrushchev

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed. — Robert Gilpin

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life. — Fidel Castro

To put the point facetiously, one could say that Hegel began his career a Marxist and later became a Hegelian. — Michael N. Forster

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism. — Christopher Hitchens

Whenever I want to stop myself being too Marxist about the future, I think about Shakespeare. — Paul Mason

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist. — Steve Forbes

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian. — Marvin Olasky

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology. — Anatoly Chubais

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. — Slavoj Zizek

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics. — Glenn Beck

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist — Dalai Lama

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination. — Vladimir Lenin

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

The Marxist outlook ... represents the most consistent and systematic application of the scientific outlook and method. — Bob Avakian

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

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. — Herbert Read

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain. — Tony Benn

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. — Joely Richardson

All I know is I'm not a Marxist. — Karl Marx

They are not true Marxist, nor true Leninist. The Russians are imperialists. — Gregory David Roberts

A Marxist has never written a good novel. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature. — Adolf Hitler

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

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

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life. — Jonah Goldberg

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. — Jon Voight

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants. — Helen Foster Snow

All I know is that I am not a Marxist. — Karl Marx

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. — Lee Grant

And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism. — Margaret Thatcher

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist — Che Guevara

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner. — Slavoj Zizek

Seventy-plus years in the Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave rise to a new man: Homo sovieticus. Some see — Svetlana Alexievich

I still think like a Marxist in many ways. — Christopher Hitchens