Daniel Webster Hoan Quotes

Karl Marx is not a very popular figure any more but once in a while he said something very sensible.

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

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

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income.

… that veiled sister of communism – legalistic socialism

We socialists live to some extent in symbiosis with capitalism.

If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

I never read Karl Marx.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

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

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

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