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Quotes About Marxists

Quite significantly, Gitlow here affirmed what many had suspected regarding just how far left and pro-Moscow were Ward's Methodist Federation for Social Action and the united-front organizations "set up by the Communist Party." These organizations recruited thousands of ministers, most of them presumably dupes, through which American Marxists in the Communist Party carried out their infiltration of religion "on a grand scale.
~ Paul Kengor
In fact, the poor are generally too busy making ends meet to be the vanguard of any revolution. History shows that terrorism is a largely bourgeois endeavor, from the Russian anarchists of the late nineteenth century to the German Marxists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang of the 1970s, to the apocalyptic Japanese terror cult Aum Shinrikyo of the 1990s. Islamist terrorists, it turns out, are no different.
~ Peter Bergen
In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam Smith and his free-market philosophy, only to see a new and more vibrant global marketplace reemerge after being savagely attacked by Keynesians, Marxists, and assorted socialists.
~ Mark Skousen
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.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Lenin should return to Russia, rally the Marxists, and organize a national Communist political party patterned after the highly successful Social Democrats in Germany.
~ Unknown
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Marxists are coming around to seeing my views on the economy with greater perspective. I was the one who propounded that there should be a 'level-playing field' among nations on the economic front, that they cannot have low-interest rates in their countries and argue against cheap labour in India.
~ Subramanian Swamy
Much has already been said about the indisputable integrity of men such as AB Bardhan and Prakash Karat. So, why is it that while the sleaze and slime of the political underbelly puts us off, we aren't warmed by the relative virtue and scrubbed-clean morality of the Marxists?
~ Barkha Dutt
Marxists believe culture and all its ideas are a result of economic conditions, intersectionalists believe group identity is paramount, and both views discard the individual as irrelevant.
~ Unknown
Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Everything is offered up to a truth that is emergent and possessed by anyone. The delicate point is that this truth should be realized neither beyond the world, as it is by those who go to Mass, nor on this side of it, as it is for the Marxists.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.
~ Nick Cohen
Marxists define the bourgeoisie in economic terms in order to hide from us the fact that they belong to it.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
We reactionaries will live in the future society just as uncomfortably as will the Marxists; but the Marxists will look upon it with the eyes of a dumbfounded father, while we will regard it with the irony of a stranger.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila