Barbara Amiel Quotes

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.'

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

A bourgeois revolution is always a revolution of a minority against the majority. The proletarian revolution which aims at being truly Communist, must be a revolution of the majority against the minority

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

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

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

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.

Many workers already realize that the rule of the Socialist or Communist party will be only the concealed form of the rule of the bourgeois class in which the exploitation and suppression of the working class remains.

Communism is a system that takes from the Stone Age its technical level, from slavery its social relations, from feudalism its hierarchy, from capitalism its exploitation, and from socialism its name.

Bourgeois humor is always bankrupt; it is mortgaged to Red radicalism.

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

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom. It has failed to produce food.

Communism is akin to a disease that spreads like an epidemic.

A Marxist could not open a newspaper without finding on every page confirming evidence for his interpretation of history; not only in the news, but also in its presentation — which revealed the class bias of the paper — and especially of course what the paper did not say.

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

If every one of those good words - liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights - has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system …. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

The Marxist theory of ideology is extremely contentious, not least because it is tied to socio-economic hypotheses that are no longer believable.

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.