Michael Foot 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.

I'm a Marxist.

There are Marxists and there are people that are socialists. But the label of Marxist takes on a whole new meaning. Even socialist for a while took on a whole new meaning.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

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

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

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

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

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

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.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

There is little real difference between the Socialist Party and the Communists

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

People joined the Communist Party because it was doing something. It was fighting Fascism.