Ronald Reagan Quotes

Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

I've never said I'm a communist.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

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

I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.

Marx and Lenin were ahead of their time. Marx wrote before offshoring of jobs and the financialization of the economy. Lenin presided over a communist revolution that jumped the gun by taking place in a country in which feudal elements still predominated over capitalism.

Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

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.

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.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

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.

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

I always thought communism was crap, really.

The big successful Communist revolutions occurred in poor agrarian societies–Russia in 1917 and China in 1949–not in industrialized societies, as Marx had predicted.

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

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

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.

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.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

I'm a Marxist.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.