Marxist Quotes

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

Black, Friends, Students

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

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Others, Treat, Read

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

Last, Actually, Took

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.
Christopher Hitchens

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

Life, Last, Until

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

Nothing, Jesus, Christ

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

Cannot, Communism, Denied

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.
Joan Didion

Mind, Tell, Anyone

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.
Alexei Sayle

Confused, Else, Seems

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 Zizek

Today, Human, Saying

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.
Roland Joffe

Life, Education, Best

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

Place, Left, Resolutely

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

Economy, Private, Ideology

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
Marvin Olasky

Age, Christian, Atheist

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.
Jon Voight

Peace, Through, Movement

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.
Ernest Mandel

Experience, Struggle, Book

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
Robert Welch

American, System, Tax

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
Agnes Smedley

Small, Understand, Leader

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
Agnes Smedley

Bad, Small, Paper

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

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.
Slavoj Zizek

Best, Failure, Sorry

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
John Sherman Cooper

Life, Failure, Sad

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.
John Sherman Cooper

Age, Great, Writing

It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.
Rory Bremner

End, Find, Road

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

Mother, Human, Last

John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
Claudio Hummes

Jesus, Made, Used

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

Married, Neither, Garbage

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

Political, Matter, Rather

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