Quotes: Marxism

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

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

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

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

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

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