Claude Chabrol Quotes

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

What is a communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

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

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

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.

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.

Every year humanity takes a step towards Communism. Maybe not you, but … your grandson will surely be a Communist.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

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

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

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

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.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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.

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.

Communism is nonsense.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

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

The theory of Socialism grew out of the philosophic, historical and economic theories that were elaborated by the educated representatives of the propertied classes, the intellectuals. The founders of modern scientific Socialism, Marx and Engels, belonged to the bourgeois intelligentsia.

Marxism today is playing dead, but it is not altogether abolished.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.