Friedrich Engels Quotes

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.

Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

Mere analysis, that is the Party line, was … substituted for the raw, emergent movement of life itself. The psychology of human beings was descended not directly from experience but from a set of political theories.

The more ideological, the politician, the greater his need for illusion

Marxist ideology is wrong, but I have known many good people who are Marxists.

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'

When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is.

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

Humans are lazy but not stupid.

Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.

One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism. . . . In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists.