Quotes About Marxists

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

Dinesh D'Souza

#2. An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

Jose Bergamin

#3. 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

#4. Marx called Darwin a plagiarist and Malthus a fraud. Now all Marxists are Malthusian Darwinists.

A.E. Samaan

#5. 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.

Noam Chomsky

#6. I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

Tom Metzger

#7. Obama is ratcheting up his class warfare to levels that would make Marxists blush.

David Limbaugh

#8. We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

Dorothy Day

#9. Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Friedrich Engels

#10. [ ... ] while I felt that the Marxist attitude towards their theory was not at all admirable but was typically dogmatic and had all these properties which the Marxists usually said were characteristic of the churches. So I realized fairly early that Marxism was more of a church than of a science.

Karl Popper

#11. People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.

Billy Graham

#12. What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few 'conservatives'.

Grover Furr

#13. Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.

Nick Cohen

#14. 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.

Joseph Stalin

#15. Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

Augusto Pinochet

#16. [In case of zombie uprising] Marxists and Feminists would likely sympathize more with zombies. To Marxists, the undead symbolize the oppressed proletariat. Unless the zombies were all undead white males, feminists would likely welcome the posthuman smashing of existing patriarchal structures.

Daniel W. Drezner

#17. Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!
-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872

Otto Von Bismarck

#18. Marxists want nothing more than to stop being Marxists. In this respect, being a Marxist is nothing like being a Buddhist or a billionaire.

Terry Eagleton

#19. We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.

Dorothy Day

#20. Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

Mamata Banerjee

#21. Oleg Bard: I understand, but by virtue of that power of imagination which, according to [Georgi] Plekhanov, is granted to Marxists, I can already see as through a prism, so to speak, the triumph of your class as symbolized by your sublime, ravishing, elegant, and class-conscious wedding!

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#22. Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

Camille Paglia

#23. If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

Martin Freeman

#24. Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dick Armey

#25. What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with at least as much passion as the liberals.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#26. Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

Margaret Thatcher

#27. 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.

Richard Engel

#28. 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.

George Will

#29. You know there are very few Marxists left in the world ... they're all in American universities.

Milton Friedman

#30. Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the solutions they arc inclined to accept, arc conditioned by the intellectual, social, and economic environments in which they live and work.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#31. A huge advertisement in the unmistakably bright red tones of Vodacom, the global mobile phone giant, looked on this tawdry scene. It read to me like a distilled message about the only values that remained in this country, whose leaders were once committed Marxists: money and power.

Howard W. French

#32. Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.

John Desmond Bernal

#33. Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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

Raymond Aron

#35. We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

John McCarthy

#36. All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

John Maynard Keynes

#37. Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Octavio Paz

#38. To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

Helen Foster Snow

#39. It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

Barbara Amiel

#40. Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

Phyllis Schlafly

#41. Only Marxists," Dr. Iggy concluded, opening the door to usher Joe into the chapel room, "still
believe in an objective history. Marxists and a few disciples of Ayn Rand.

Robert Shea

#42. The crime of capitalism is that it forces the vast majority of the population to remain preoccupied with basic concerns of nutrition, housing, health, and skill acquisition. It leaves little time for fostering the community and creativity that humans crave

Nivedita Majumdar