Ebenezer Elliott Quotes

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.

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.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

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

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.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Every year humanity takes a step towards Communism. Maybe not you, but … your grandson will surely be a Communist.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.

Communism is nonsense.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

A communist is a man who has nothing and wishes to share it with the world.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

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.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

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