Marxist Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Peace, Hysteria, Vietnam

  "VOIGHT: My concerns for America". www.washingtontimes.com. July 28, 2008.

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• 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

  Men, Want, Progressive

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• Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was the opiate of the masses. Raymond Aron retorted that Marxist ideas were in turn the opiate of the intellectuals. There is perspicacity in both these polemical thrusts. But is perspicacity truth? I wish to suggest that perhaps truth has been the real opiate, of both the masses and the intellectuals.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Real, Ideas, Having Fun

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.81, Verso

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

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Reality, Government

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• An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

  Jose Bergamin

  Ignorance, Catholic, Christ

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• Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

  Carl Andre

  Political, Matter, Conscious

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.61, MIT Press

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

  Ed Miliband

  Son, Views, Wells

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• Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Hard Work, Science, Intellectual

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• A Marxist has never written a good novel.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Novel, Written

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• If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

  Pope Francis

  Father, Giving, Justice

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• In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.

  Paul Broun

  Usa, President, United States

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

  Mao Zedong

  Book, Revolution, Communism

  Zedong Mao (2007). “On Practice and Contradiction”, Verso Books

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• We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

  Dorothy Day

  Believe, Goal, Fundamentals

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• I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

  Agnes Smedley

  Circles, Leader, Asking

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• It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.

  Rory Bremner

  Opposites, People, Way

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• Evil comes in many forms and seems to reinvent itself time and again. But whatever it calls itself - Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today, terrorism - they all have one thing in common: the destruction, the end of human liberty.

  Stephen Harper

  Evil, Liberty, Nazism

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• The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Peace, War

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.37, Lulu.com

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• When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  War, Years, America

  "Kirkpatrick Hit Liberals for Blaming America First". www.washingtontimes.com. May 15, 2006.

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• To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists - the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador - are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.

  Michael Novak

  Lying, War, Fall

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• If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Country, Speak English, Eight

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• An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European countries for being an accomplice of the dissidents. None of these descriptions is important by itself; taken together, on the other hand, they mean something. And I must admit that I rather like what they mean.

  Michel Foucault

  Country, Taken, Mean

  Source: www.nicklewis.org

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• The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

  Adolf Hitler

  Blood, Community, Humanity

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at all can find expression in our controlled media and educational systems. Forget about wholesale culture- or civilization-critics like Marxists. Universities have to be purged of any "radicalism" that can see through to the roots of issues and pathologies, for the same reasons that workers have to have nascent unions aborted among them and contrarian newspapers and media have to be starved of advertising.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Educational, Successful

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• There are Marxists and there are people that are socialists. But the label of Marxist takes on a whole new meaning. Even socialist for a while took on a whole new meaning.

  Glenn Beck

  People, Labels, Socialist

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.

  Fred Reed

  School, Civilization, Ideas

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