Marxism Quotations

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible; this is a farce.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

During the Reagan Administration, so much attention was devoted to fighting Marxism in Nicaragua and El Salvador that Washington lost sight of longer-term challenges in other countries.

Deng engineered the most dramatic economic transformation of the 20th century, maybe ever. He changed China from a moribund, communist economy to an expansive, bull, rapidly growing mixed economy, with Marxism and market elements both present there. And it's a dramatic change.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

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.

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels - the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming - has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.