Slavoj Zizek Quotes

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.

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.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

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.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

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.

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 to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.

Communism is not immortal; it is impossible. It doesn’t work.

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

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas — and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists.

Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.

The academic Left has a long history of taking the idea of 'false consciousness' seriously.

While signing 'Sakhavu,' I wasn't aware of the depth of communism in Kerala. I was born and brought up in Chennai, and our political ideologies are very different.

Communism has not died. We naively thought in the '90s we had buried communism, but this is not true. It is not dead, and it will be coming back.

Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.