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


Eric Hoffer


#jesus #marx #marxism #nature

[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between "false" conflicts and the "true" conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a "false" one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its "truth": the Leftist emancipatory position.


Slavoj Žižek


#philosophy #religion #religion

In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.


Cornel West


#marxism #capitalism

Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financial and industrial processes. One was his uncle in Holland, Lion Philips, a successful businessman who created what eventually became the vast Philips Electric Company. Uncle Philips' views on the whole capitalist process would have been well-informed and interesting, had Marx troubled to explore them. But he only once consulted him, on a technical matter of high finance, and though he visited Philips four times, these concerned purely personal mattes of family money. The other knowledgeable man was Engels himself. But Marx declined Engel's invitation to accompany him on a visit to a cotton mill, and so far as we know Marx never set foot in a mill, factory, mine or other industrial workplace in the whole of his life.


Paul Johnson


#marx #marxism #family

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.


Rosa Luxemburg


#marxism #must #new #revelations #revolutionary

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.


Harold MacMillan


#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.


Jose Saramago


#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.


Joseph A. Schumpeter


#essentially #marxism #mind #product

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


Slavoj Žižek


#capitalism #communism #conservatives #hamburgers #marxism

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


Irving Berlin


#karl-marx #marx-brothers #marxism #communism