Marxist Quotes - Page 6

• Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

  Roland Joffe

  Wrestling, Cities, Joy

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

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Atheist, Years

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• The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer in a Faith, the opponent is not merely in error but in sin. Dissent is disapproved of not only intellectually but also morally. There cannot be any excuse for it once the Message has been revealed.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Religious, Attitude, Errors

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.5, Routledge

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

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Names, Feminism, Opinion

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.60, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Unity, Opponents, Causes

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• In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.

  Cornel West

  People, Brutality, Needs

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• Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity. No primitive tribe worshipping with its witch-doctor was ever more vicious in its hatred and suppression of heretics than today's Marxist intellectuals, anti-racists and liberals.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Hate, Pride, Doctors

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

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Communism, Should, Feels

  "Khrushchev's secret speech: a crack in the monolith" by Mike Haynes, socialistworker.co.uk. February 18, 2006.

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• It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Economy, Treats, Scholar

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From the   5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being   indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the   left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are   scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the   destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure,   thrills, and self-indulgence.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Philosophy, Father

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• Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, World, Cold

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• As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

  Karen DeCrow

  Two, Grows, Thirds

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• The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

  James Joll

  Independence, Example, Spirit

  James Joll (1978). “Antonio Gramsci”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Block, Party

  Margaret Thatche's Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 8, 1976.

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• We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by the army but by the entire Soviet people. The Socialist economy, Soviet political structure, and Marxist-Leninist ideology proved their unarguable excellence against the Fascist economy, Fascist political structure, and Fascist ideology of Germany.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Country, Army, Socialist Economy

  "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal", Yerevan, 1987.

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• Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

  Dick Armey

  Sound, Clinton, Bother

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. 1993.

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• We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.

  Anthony Crosland

  Country, Party, Believe

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• I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Memories, Reflection, Government

  Statement, November 08, 1998.

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• It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.

  Mao Zedong

  Two, Achievement, Purpose

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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

  Joely Richardson

  Mother, Rights, Years

  "Joely Richardson: the 'lies' about my family in new book" by Joely Richardson, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 21, 2011.

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

  Nick Cohen

  Shallow, Late, Capitalism

  Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso

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• The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.

  Mao Zedong

  Attitude, Struggle, Destiny

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.198, China Books

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• One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

  Claud Cockburn

  Philosophical, Speaks Out, Wind

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.

  Daniel Guerin

  Eye, Moon, Reality

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

  Francisco Franco

  Moscow, Masonic, Strive

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