John Dos Passos 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.

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.

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

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.

Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion — how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.

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

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

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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.

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.

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.

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.

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

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

Marxism today is playing dead, but it is not altogether abolished.

Karl Marx is not a very popular figure any more but once in a while he said something very sensible.

As for Marx, his economic value, apart from occasional … flashes of insight, is nil.

Marxism-Leninism is a worn-out dress that should be thrown away.

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

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

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

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

I'm a Marxist.

Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and makes them complements in the attack against existing society.

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