#marx

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#brings #economic #economic system #encourages #growth

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#ago #atheist #became #christian #grew

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#been #before #born #child #delivered

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#being #better #communist #confused #despite

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

— Lee Grant

#fascist #garbage #i #married #marxist

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#arose #art #became #course #marxism

Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study will be the books we never read, for whatever reason. Aside from the music we never listened to, the movies we never watched, or the old archives and maps we never explored, the books we never read will be one of the indicators of our anachronisms and our flawed humanity. ↗

— Boris Gunjević

#marxism #philosophy #religion #movies

They are like the handful of belongings saved from a burnt-down house. There should be a continuous challenge to authority for change and reform, and groups of ordinary people should form an alliance to reclaim what was taken by the state inch by inch, like a children's game, and enlarge the territory to the level of practical equality. ↗

— Hwang Sŏk-yŏng

#socialism-communism-marxism #the-old-garden #change

Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#death