Ernest Mandel Quotes

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

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

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

I'm a Marxist.

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've never said I'm a communist.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

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

The identification of the intellectuals with the revolutionary movement is dependent … on their complete rift with bourgeois ideology and liberalism …. The relationship of the intellectuals as a group with the working class is essentially an alliance. But the alliance can be established only on the … unadulterated principles of Marxism-Leninism.

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

Marxist ideology is wrong, but I have known many good people who are Marxists.

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

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

Marxism is what has seduced American liberals - well, liberals worldwide, communists, all leftists.

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

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

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

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

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

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.