Paul Craig Roberts Quotes

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

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.

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.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

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

Communism was not only defined as the things that Marx and Lenin had advocated, but included anything that had the potential for change in the society.

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

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

To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.

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.'

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'.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

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