Marxism Quotes

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbli...

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack coca...

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in...

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different...

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

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

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of...

The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they ...

I was happiest when I was working for myself. Setting my own goals. Improving my own skills… Take co...

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing

It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Chu...

No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...

Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most...

Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But h...

1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself s...

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nat...

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neolib...

Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin,...

The artist tries to show reason in experience and appearance – and lyric is the daily appearance, th...

[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being...

It rests on the attempt since the 1970s to translate a pathological degeneration of the principle of...

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

The application of psychoanalysis to sociology must definitely guard against the mistake of wanting ...

A society whose members are helpless need idols.

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life ...

He claimed to be a Marxist, the only one of his claims I believed. He had that Marxist passion for o...

Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the pr...

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satis...

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is esp...

For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history...

The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberali...

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

There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"...

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the ...

Socialism is a monster, which will die.

The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was ...

As it happens I am comfortable with the Michael Laskis of this world, with those who live outside ra...

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common deno...

Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialis...

Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into...

Instead of sniping at her like Mrs. Mi, Mrs. Ting let my mother do all sorts of things she wanted, l...

Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a di...

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i...

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...

...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as oft...

By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make...

The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfi...

This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis...

Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must ...

The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are ...

What the working man sells is not directly his labour, but his labouring power, the temporary dispos...

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sha...

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception o...

Here, the asking of the question who we are is in fact more dangerous than any other opposition foun...

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its struct...

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinc...

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be w...

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed ...

Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financ...

How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ...

So let us replace the word with a true description. People in our societies own things, their labour...

If he had stayed in Slovenia, and Slovenia had stayed Communist, Zizek would not have been the nuisa...

What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a ...

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejo...

During the night two delegates of the railwaymen were arrested. The strikers immediately demanded th...

...we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exert...