#marxism

Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#engels #marx #marxism #science #science

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#apathy #apolitical #determinism #historical-determinism #history

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

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#democracy #economy #justice #marxism #representative

Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#age

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#critically #detachment #development #economy #imagined

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #day #errors #fight #free

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#classics #darwin #darwinian #darwinian theory #errors

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#church #countries #fashionable #i #infect