Quotes About Marxism

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

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

Karl Marx, Amaya liked to say, was the last great philosopher of the coal age; his workers were locked into a serflike condition. Had Marx witnessed the industrial explosion of the Oil Century and the rising standard of living it produced among ordinary workers, he might have written differently.

the labour-time necessary for the production of labour-power is the same as that necessary for the production of those means of subsistence; in other words, the value of labour-power is the value of the means of subsistence necessary for the maintenance of its owner.

Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises.

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

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.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

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.

Islam was the Marxism of the twenty-first century, a cover for national liberation movements of all stripes. Except that the high priests of Marxism had never promised their followers rewards in the next world in exchange for their deaths in this one.

Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

El dios, o la diosa, del capitalismo, del marxismo, del industrialismo, de la ecología profunda, del consumismo o del ecofeminismo es el dios de lo que puede verse con los ojos, percibirse con los sentidos, registrarse con los sentimientos o venerarse con las sensaciones, un dios al que puede hincarse el diente y que se agota en las formas.

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

mcMarxism: rich liberals using a perverted form of socialism to deliver the gullible into the claws of a corporatocracy

Marxism was simply Marxism until Freud was invited into its bed. It then became fucking Marxism! It moved the focus from the factory floor to the bedroom, from necessity to narcissism to the abandonment of the toilers and the move towards todays obsession with toiletry freedom.

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

Universul era o juxtapunere sau o întrep?trundere de mecanisme opace ?i de comportamente care luptau adeseori între ele ?i care se aranjau cum puteau. Ele se n??teau din hazard ?i necesitate, din educa?ie, din clasele sociale, din realit??ile economice, din ereditate ?i din mediu. Putea surveni orice, dar psihanaliza ?i marxismul sfâr?eau mereu prin a interpreta totul. Nu se mai încerca s? se în?eleag?, se explica.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.