Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.

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

Something that's seldom appreciated about me is that I am in sympathy with a great deal of what Marx wrote, except that I'm on the side of the bourgeoisie.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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.

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.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

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

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

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

I'm a Marxist.

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

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.

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

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

The theory of Socialism grew out of the philosophic, historical and economic theories that were elaborated by the educated representatives of the propertied classes, the intellectuals. The founders of modern scientific Socialism, Marx and Engels, belonged to the bourgeois intelligentsia.

Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion — how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.

Marx is the prophet of globalized capitalism.

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

I think a lot of Marx was quite sloppy. There was all sorts of politically aggressive language when he lacked arguments for things.

Marxism is the only doctrine that both satisfies the demands for progress and provides a safe outlet for moral expression in a skeptical age.