Octavio Paz Quotes
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.
Paz, Octavio. Alternating Current. Viking Press, 1973.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The Pope was not affected by the “Red Scare” that so many other world leaders has been. Typically most people opposed to Marxism generally thought that those who were Marxists were evil. Pope Francis, candidly observed that many Marxist were good people and well-intended. In his view they were wrong, being naïve or misguided.
Marx believed that the system of capitalism if it succeeded would be forced to globalize. To him, globalization was an inevitable consequence of capitalism itself and purely national industries would be destroyed.
Since the end of WWII till the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Bulgarians were part of the Soviet Bloc and operated under communism that was supposedly based on Marxism. However it was not in many critical respects. But few modern Russian style Communists are familiar with or understand Marxism.
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
