#marxism

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement. ↗

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#democracy #freedom #marxism #radicalism #rebellion

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

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— Rosa Luxemburg

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

— John McCarthy

#knowledge #marxism #misspent #sign #youth

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

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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

Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created. Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could. ↗

— Francis Spufford

#economics #marxism #planned-economy #socialism #imagination