Marxist Quotes - Page 9

• There was no special event that made me decide. I had collected some photos and the idea was in the back of my mind for a long time. It was growing and growing, so finally I said, 'I must paint this.' I come from East Germany and am not a Marxist, so of course at the time I had no sympathy for the ideas, or for the ideology that these people represented. I couldn't understand, but I was still impressed. Like everyone, I was touched. It was an exceptional moment for Germany.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, East Germany, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America-that holy of holies of capitalism-than in any other country in the world.

  Felix Houphouet-Boigny

  Country, America, Needs

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• One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.

  Gary Hamel

  Strong, Effort, Scales

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• A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.

  Saul Alinsky

  Order, Evil, Political

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.10, Vintage

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• I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Lasts, Cold

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.

  Edward Said

  Believe, Commitment, Feminist

  Edward W Said (2014). “Culture And Imperialism”, p.389, Random House

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• It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real Marxist-Leninist party, it is only the working class through armed revolution, through violence, that can and must bury the traitorous revisionists.

  Enver Hoxha

  Real, Party, Class

  Enver Hoxha (1972). “The Party of Labor of Albania in Battle with Modern Revisionism: Speeches and Articles”

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• I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in intellectual activities, I think there is something wrong. In their opinion I am a dangerous man, since I am a crypto-Marxist, an irrationalist, a nihilist.

  Michel Foucault

  Men, Thinking, People

  Michel Foucault (1988). “Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault”, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

  Milton Friedman

  America, World, Economic

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• Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

  David Horowitz

  Art, Cuba, Doctrine

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• It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

  Che Guevara

  Reality, Faults, Ifs

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