Marxism Quotes

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

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

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

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

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

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

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

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

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

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

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

When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

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

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

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

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

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

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

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

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

I don't think that the Soviet Union and China are accidents, aberrations; I think they follow from Marxism-Leninism. I think that Leninism comes out of Marx's basic convictions.

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

Marxism is what has seduced American liberals - well, liberals worldwide, communists, all leftists.

Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.

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

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed.

LIFE IS SUBVERSIVE

... 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.

When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a “Newtonian” or of a biologist when asked if he is a “Pasteurian.

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there.

You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!

A society whose members are helpless need idols.

Society reproduces itself antagonistically.

You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.