Quotes of Marxism - somelinesforyou

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

- Harold Macmillan

“ The dialectic is neither fiction or mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the daily problems of life but attempts to arrive at an understanding of more complicated and drawn-out processes. The dialectic and formal logic bear a relationship similar to that between higher and lower mathematics. ”

- Leon Trotsky

“ An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. ”

- John McCarthy

“ Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. ”

- Edmund Wilson

“ 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

“ The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion. ”

- Leon Trotsky

“ Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food. ”

- John Dos Passos

“ As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. ”

- C. L. R. James

“ Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent… ”

- Graham Greene

“ Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis — German National Socialism. ”

- Hermann Goering
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