#marxism

But in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by Peter's forcibly imposed transformations, which favored the economy, the state, and the military at the expense of the religious spirit and national life. And along with this lopsided Petrine enlightenment, Russia felt the first whiff of secularism; its subtle poisons permeated the educated classes in the course of the 19th century and opened the path to Marxism. By the time of the Revolution, faith had virtually disappeared in Russian educated circles; and amongst the uneducated, its health was threatened. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#russia #secularism #education

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#academics #darwin #einstein #freud #institutions

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. ↗

— Earl Browder

#history #made #marxism #necessary #new

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#british #british museum #like #marxism #museum

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#constant #demand #important #marxism #part

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#better #despite #else #explain #flaws

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#essentially #marxism #mind #product

The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#capitalism #communism #conservatives #hamburgers #marxism

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#karl-marx #marx-brothers #marxism #communism

The way people get their living determines their social outlook. ↗

— Karl Marx

#communism #marxism #social #socialism #communism