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“Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.”

World War Economic Cold Crisis Seeds Capitalist Cold War Clash Marxist Economic Systems

Author:Joseph Stalin

“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.”

“Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.”

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

Method Consistent Application Outlook Systematic Marxist

Author:Bob Avakian

“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.”

Men Military He Man Economics Moderates American Politics Civilians Marxist Squad

Author:Steve Forbes

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

Christian Jesus Marxist

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang -- which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara -- not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy?”

“Lenin, Stalin, and Rakosi recognized that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force that could move the masses as powerfully as the Marxist ideal could. They attacked it as the enemy that it was and is.”

Christian Moving Force Religious Christianity Enemy Mass Ideals Marxist

Book:Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

Source: Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

“Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.”

Economy Marxism Marxist Opium

Author:Joan Robinson

“This book is the best treatment of the best American Marxist philosopher-and the best philosopher to emerge from American slums. Young Sidney Hook is essential reading for anyone interested in democratic theory and practice in America.”

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Author:Cornel West

“The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.”

Source: On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society

“We have to unmask this man [POTUS Obama]. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God - and I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy. Karl Marx very clearly said Marxism requires that we destroy God because government must become God.”

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Author:Rafael

“In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.”

Way Accounts Settling Inclination Marxist Sociologists

Author:Raymond Aron

“You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.”

Mean Doe Art Decision Gone Records Huge Amount Pops Pool Embarrassing 80s Pop Music Marxist Borderline

Author:Steve Earle

“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.”

People World Want Letters Editors Torn Publish Marxist Letters To The Editor

Author:Mark Helprin

“The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.”

World Want Needs Made Matter Culture Nations Understanding Practice Identity Materials Thirds Fundamentals Determine Productions Absence Horizon Third World Seductive Marxist Output

Author:Mark McMorris

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Want Believe Doe Country Revolution Revolutionary Nonsense Other Countries Marxist

Author:J. Stalin

“Some liberation theologians maintain that they are not influenced by Marxist philosophy at all. In this case it is necessary to discern whether they say this for tactical reasons, so as not to be compromised politically or whether they are really convinced that Marxism doesn't influence them in any way. I personally think that it is not possible to evade the influence of Marxism, as we cannot commit ourselves to the revolutionary struggle without drawing support from the conclusions of scientific socialism.”

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Author:Ernesto Cardenal

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

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Author:Lee Grant

“Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.”

Men Hands Jobs Party Theory Labor Historical Workers Worthy Alienation Marxist

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“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.”

Ifs Seems Term Poor Rich Seeing Capitalism Crisis Gaps Rich And Poor Unreasonable Marxist

Author:Charles Stross

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

Ifs Literature Workers Socialist Marxist

Book:Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

Source: Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews

“Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.”

“We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.”

Men Needs Philosophy Concepts Barack Chicago Indonesia Kenya Marxist

Author:Rafael Cruz

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

Self Nations Interest Higher Determination Deny Socialism Self Determination Marxist

Author:Vladimir Lenin

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

Used Revolution Chinese Target Arrows Marxist Chinese Revolution

Author:Mao Zedong

“The folkish philosophy is fundamentally distinguished from the Marxist by reason of the fact that the former recognizes the significance of race and therefore also personal worth and has made these the pillars of its structure. These are the most important factors of its view of life.”

Made Important Reason Philosophy Facts Views Race Structure Factors Former Significance Distinguished Pillars Marxist Personal Worth

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.”

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Author:George Will

“In fact, the gravest obstacle to the restoration of civilization in North America is universal suffrage. Letting everybody vote makes no sense. Obviously they are no good at it. The whole idea smacks of the fumble-witted idealism of a high-school Marxist society.”

Ideas Whole Facts School America Civilization High School Vote Universal Obstacles Idealism Restoration Marxist North America Suffrage Smack Universal Suffrage

Author:Fred Reed

“A Marxist has never written a good novel.”

Novel Written Marxist

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Surely people can now see that it is no accident that he, Obama, sat at the feet of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, that he is mother was a leftist activist and cultural Marxist, that his main early mentor was radical Frank Marshall Davis, that he was a member of the far-left New Party in Chicago, that his main vocation in life has been street organizing and agitation and that he didn't think the revolutionarily, transformative Warren court was liberal enough.”

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Author:David Limbaugh

“Obama is ratcheting up his class warfare to levels that would make Marxists blush.”

Levels Class Warfare Marxist Class Warfare

Author:David Limbaugh

“Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was also seen by many as a liberator of Cuba. 'I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.' Castro said at the time. Only after he consolidated power, did he tell the truth: 'I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.'”

“The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.”

Christian Tolerance Radical Islamic Paradox Marxist Transsexuals

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.”

“Obama's Marxist mentors - Franklin Marshall Davis, Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers - also understood that you don't build an army of street organizers or a recurring voting constituency by teaching people of the streets to fish. When you 'share wealth around' you make the distributees dependent on your next handout - beholden to your largesse with other's people's money and personally worse off in every respect.”

People Next Wealth Share Streets Teaching Understood Army Bills Fishes Voting Dependent Mentor Franklin Marxist Recurring Organizer Handouts Largesse

Author:David Limbaugh

“Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me again, was it John Ashcroft or Fidel Castro who put H.I.V. sufferers in concentration camps?”

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Author:Ron Rosenbaum

“I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.”

Needs Littles Stills Left Force Dangerous Revolution Obvious Terrorism Convinced Technique Practicals Doctrine Former Phrases Collections Stimulus Menace Marxist Impetus Subversion

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.”

“It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'”

Ifs Want Children Heard Catholic Brands Phrases Immoral Marxist

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.”

Needs Millions Records Amount Sells Selling Embarrassing Marxist Borderline

Author:Steve Earle

“Those who promote the politically correct theory are favored with billions from government grants and neo-Marxist environmentalist largesse, and official recognition and award. Faked and tampered data and evidence has arisen in favor of the politically correct theory. Is not man-caused, catastrophic global warming now the only theory allowed to be taught in the West?”

Men Government Taught Theory Evidence West Favors Billions Recognition Data Officials Global Warming Grants Awards Marxist Environmentalist Politically Correct Largesse

Author:Peter Ferrara

“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.”

Years Law College Pretending In-laws Marxist Communes College Years

Author:Jane Smiley

“Hezbollah and the government are only two of 18 political factions in Lebanon, most of them armed. There are militant Christian groups, Palestinian radicals, al-Qaida, Druze militias and even armed bands of Marxists still operating in Lebanon.”

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Author:Richard Engel

“In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.”

States Running United Class United States Struggle Committed Engaged Elites Marxist Class Struggle

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It seemed to me to be a parable of the exchange of goods, rather Marxist in some ways, in the new world of global forces. What the forgers do is write the brand name to try and change it, and it works! Loads of people buy fake Prada handbags, or Chanel sunglasses; they've been changed. They have been truly, really changed.”

People World Way Writing Trying Has Beens Names Force Changed Brands Fake Goods New World Load Marxist Parables Sunglasses Handbags Prada Brand Names

Author:Marina Warner

“I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive seminars and no one has demolished it so far. I did think that this idea from an artisanal and trading perception of the auratic quality of goods when they are given character and inscription, made the stories of phantasmic wealth read more powerfully in the 18th and 19th centuries than the stories of Cinderella's wealth, because they are conjured out of nothing by these magic means.”

Thinking Mean Made Ideas Character Stories Given Wealth Quality Magic Century Perception Economics Argument Nonsense Massive Goods Thinker Trading 19th Century Marxist Inscriptions Seminars

Author:Marina Warner

“I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist trajectory - with a French twist on the centrality of liberty, equality and fraternity (cf. Politics of Friendship). Not to mention the role of Levinas and, behind Levinas, Judaism's twinning of eschatology and the call for justice.”

Kind Interest Justice Behinds Liberty Roles Posts Not Sure Rooted Judaism Twists Theological Marxist Fraternity Trajectory Cfs Eschatology Derrida Structuralism

Author:George Pattison

“I think that gave rise to the type of practice that I - that I do now. I think it was informed by a very Marxist almost "use-value"-driven investigation of painting as agent. These are high-priced luxury goods for wealthy consumers, which are designed to deliver certain communicative effects.”

Thinking Use Certain Values Practice Effects Painting Type Driven Agents Luxury Consumers Goods Wealthy Investigation Marxist Luxury Goods

Author:Kehinde Wiley

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