Rosa Luxemburg Quotes

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical materialism, which I think is virtually a debris of despotism.

Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man.

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects - his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

Communism will win.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.

Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.

At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.

It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

I will accept comments and criticism about change.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

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

It is impossible to become a real communist without studying-really studying - all that Plekhanov has written on philosophy, as this is the best of the whole international literature of Marxism

The apparent weak point of true socialist war policy lies in the fact that revolutions cannot be made “on command”

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

Philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it