#marxism

Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#humanism #marxism #poetry #rosa-luxemburg #beauty

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

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Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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

— Harold MacMillan

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An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. ↗

— John McCarthy

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

— Alexei Sayle

#better #despite #else #explain #flaws

Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

#eagleton-terry #ideology #marxism #life

... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail. ↗

— Ernesto Cardenal

#marxism #poetry #catholicism

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical