Mao Zedong Quotes

There are Marxists and there are people that are socialists. But the label of Marxist takes on a whole new meaning. Even socialist for a while took on a whole new meaning.

Liberals, communists, socialists, look at people as workers. They look at 'em as ants, worker ants, worker bees and so forth, and they just plug 'em in to do jobs that need to be done.

...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.

Communists are the last optimists.

In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Communism will win.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

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

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

The difference between the Socialists and the Communists is that … the Communists mean it.

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.

What is Communism? The Soviet Republic plus electrification.

The Clarion will convert England to Socialism in seven years. British working classes are not fit for Socialism yet.

The accumulated experience of mankind in the struggle against exploitation, synthesized in Marxism, enabled the Mozambican revolutionary movement to benefit from and absorb that experience.

But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

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