Harold MacMillan Quotes

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.

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

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

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

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.

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

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.

Marx is the prophet of globalized capitalism.

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

I'm a Marxist.

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

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.

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

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'.

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.

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 essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

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

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.

Under the tousled boyish haircut it is still old Karl Marx

Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history.

[Referring to Karl Marx:] ... the prince of muddleheads.