Arthur Chaskalson Quotes

I'm a communist, man. I'm going to break the rules.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

Communism is nonsense.

Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

The identification of the intellectuals with the revolutionary movement is dependent … on their complete rift with bourgeois ideology and liberalism …. The relationship of the intellectuals as a group with the working class is essentially an alliance. But the alliance can be established only on the … unadulterated principles of Marxism-Leninism.

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.

To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.

Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Communism will win.

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

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

A communist is a man who has nothing and wishes to share it with the world.

We only need one, in the same way that Lenin only needed one.

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.