Marxist Quotes

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

  Dalai Lama

  Economic, Social, Theory

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

  Michael Pare

  Political, Doe, This Society

  "Dirty truths". Book by Michael Parenti, 1996.

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• Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.

  Mao Zedong

  Book, Cocky, Blow

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work: March 12, 1957”

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• Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Rights, Tolerance

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• 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.

  Tony Benn

  Jesus, Russia, Spain

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• The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook irreconcilable with any form of superstition, reaction, or defence of bourgeois oppression. It is the legitimate successor to the best that man produced in the nineteenth century, as represented by German philosophy, English political economy and French socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Philosophy, Men, Political

  Vladimir Il'ich Lenin (1975). “Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh”

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

  Karl Marx

  Communist Manifesto, Certain, Ifs

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1993). “Collected Works: Marx and Engels, 1880-83”, International Pub

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• Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Christian, Cutting, Rome

  Augusto Pinochet's speech, November 10, 1995.

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• Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Hate, America, Professors

  "Feminist Mischief on College Campuses". Phyllis Schlafly, "Phyllis Schlafly Report", Volume 38, No. 9, eagleforum.org. April 2005.

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• We Marxists believe that a revolution will also take place in other countries. But it will take place only when the revolutionaries in those countries think it possible, or necessary. The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country will make its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution.

  J. Stalin

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

  Karl Marx

  Communism, Knows

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• All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Government, Political

  Attributed in a letter from Engels to C. Schmidt, 5 August 1890

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• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  Barack Obama

  Friends, Leather Jackets, Rocks

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

  Carl Andre

  Political, Matter, Conscious

  Carl Andre, James Sampson Meyer (2005). “Cuts: Texts 1959-2004”, p.61, MIT Press

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• No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Determination, Self, Socialism

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• Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Hard Work, Science, Intellectual

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• Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

  Mark Helprin

  Editors, People, World

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• The Marxist outlook ... represents the most consistent and systematic application of the scientific outlook and method.

  Bob Avakian

  Systematic, Outlook, Method

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

  Ed Miliband

  Son, Views, Wells

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

  Michael Foot

  Views, Essentials, Debate

  The Daily Telegraph, 1977.

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• A Marxist has never written a good novel.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Novel, Written

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• What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few 'conservatives'.

  Grover Furr

  Fighting, Racism, Needs

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• One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Philosophy, Thinking, Confusion

  "Dialectical Materialism and Modern Science". Science and Society, Volume II, No. 1, 1937.

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• We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

  Dorothy Day

  Struggle, Sleep, Reality

  "Month of the Dead". "Catholic Worker", November 1959.

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• Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Up Early, Causes, Get Up

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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