Marx Revolution Quotes

#1. Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.

Nicolae Ceausescu

#2. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

Nina Simone

#3. Communism is what Karl Marx hoped could be an economic scheme for making industrialized nations take as good care of people, and especially of children and the old and disabled, as tribes and extended families used to do, before they were dispersed by the Industrial Revolution.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTIONARY CONSCIOUSNESS IS: educate yourself. On the train, for example, read the same two pages of Das Kapital over and over, willing them to make sense.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#5. It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx or Engels. The salvos of the October Revolution awoke us to Marxism-Leninism.

Mao Zedong

#6. There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#7. Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Karl Marx

#8. His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

Hannah Arendt

#9. ...Marx was constrained to think within a horizon torn between the aleatory of the Encounter and the necessity of the Revolution.

Louis Althusser