Fidel Castro Quotes

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.

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

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 most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

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 theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

I'm a Marxist.

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

It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

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.

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.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

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

You cannot be a modern man and be a Marxist.

Marx is the prophet of globalized capitalism.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

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.

Communism will win.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

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