Top 211 Marxist Quotes & Sayings

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Crucially, Marxist atheism is only achieved once the theological critique of capitalism is completed. This is what separates Marxist atheism from the gliberal platitudes of the likes of Nick Cohen, who proclaim secularism while remaining attached to the theology of capital (liberal commonsense).

A Marxist has never written a good novel.

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.

We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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 is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy.

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as anarchist, leftist, ostentatious or disguised Marxist, nihilist, explicit or secret anti-Marxist, technocrat in the service of Gaullism, new liberal and so on.

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

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is almost a Marxist.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

The silence of the Left, or the exclusive focus of the Left, on America's alleged crimes over the past half-century, the disdainful sneering at America's deplorable 'Cold War mentality' - none of this has to be reassessed in light of the evidence of genocides that surpassed Hitler's, all in the name of a Marxist ideology. An ideology that doesn't need to be reassessed. As if it was maybe just an accident that Marxist-Leninist regimes turned totalitarian and genocidal. No connection there.

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

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

Those people that created the cultural Marxist thoughts, one guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci, very important within the Frankfurt School, argued against the concept of Marxist Leninism, in which it was basically the revolutionary spirit where someone would say we need to rile up the lower classes and have a revolution and take over the factories.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

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.

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.

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.

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.

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived from a romantic conception of human nature... It assumes that the socialization of property will eliminate human egotism... The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

Bolshevism was a mind-set, an idiosyncratic culture with an intolerant paranoid wordview obsessed with abstruse Marxist ideology.

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

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

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

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

The Marxist theory of ideology is extremely contentious, not least because it is tied to socio-economic hypotheses that are no longer believable.

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

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.

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

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.

The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it.

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

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

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

We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

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

I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

I'm a Marxist.

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.