John McDonnell 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.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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

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

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

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.

Marxism does not make sense, and I am the first one to say this

Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.

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

The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war.

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.

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

For [Karl] Marx, science was a creative, historic and revolutionary force.

The doctrines of Karl Marx are a destroyer of all mortals.

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.

Marx is the prophet of globalized capitalism.

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.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

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

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.

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

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.