Michael Portillo Quotes

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.

Communism is nonsense.

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

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

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

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

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

Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

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

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

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.

[Communism] is the 20th century's most extraordinary political aberration.

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

[Referring to Karl Marx:] ... the prince of muddleheads.

The doctrines of Karl Marx are a destroyer of all mortals.

Communism was not only defined as the things that Marx and Lenin had advocated, but included anything that had the potential for change in the society.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

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.

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

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.

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

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.