Karl Marx Quotes

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.

...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

Karl Marx was the foremost hater and most incessant whiner in the history of Western Civilization. He was a spoiled, overeducated brat who never grew up; he just grew more shrill as he grew older. His lifelong hatred and whining have led to the deaths (so far) of perhaps a hundred million people, depending on how many people perished under Mao's tyranny. We will probably never know.

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than we can [George] Hegel or [Jean-Jacques] Rousseau or [Baruch] Spinoza or [Charles] Darwin; you don't have to be a Darwinian to appreciate Darwin's views, and I don't have to be a Marxist to appreciate what is valid in a number of [Karl] Marx's writings-and Marx would call that a form of simple commodity production rather than capitalism.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.