Marxism

Marxism, developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, analyses history through class struggle and material conditions.

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"The completion of the socialist revolution within national limits is unthinkable."

Leon Trotsky· b. 1879View quote →

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"Every revolutionary party finds its chief support in the younger generation of the rising class. Political decay expresses itself in a loss of ability to attract youth."

"Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously."

"There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today."

"Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more."

"The rich are only defeated when running for their lives."

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🇮🇳Suraj Bhan (archaeologist)

Education

Marxism

1931–2010

"“Nobody forbade me from observing the potteries in the pottery yard but no archaeologist was there to help me in my study."

"So the bastard's dead? Too bad we didn't capture him alive!"

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🇮🇳Nissim Mannathukkaren

Education

Marxism

"There is something deeply troubling about a culture which makes humans into gods, and which puts people on pedestals to be worshipped. For, it glosses over all blemishes in its quest for the godly."

"While speaking in ideology, and from within ideology we have to outline a discourse which tries to break with ideology, in order to dare to be the beginning of a scientific discourse on ideology."

"My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could."

"Many people declare that democracy, too, is bankrupt. It is certainly true that democracy has lost much ground in recent years, and is now face to face with a serious crisis, but we do not believe that it is bankrupt."

"Critical philosophy implies above all historical criticism. It dissolves the rigid, unhistorical, natural appearance of social institutions; it reveals their historical origins."

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🇳🇴Anders Behring Breivik

Business

Marxism

b. 1979

"I took a year off when I was 25 and played WoW PvE hardcore for a year. ... I’m currently playing Modern Warfare 2 casually."

"Before 1988 Maoism did not exist. I begin with this counter-intuitive statement in order to clarify the particular theoretical position that is the concern of this book."

"Marxism and Bolshevism: Democracy and Dictatorship"

"Bourgeois scientists make sure that their theories are not dangerous to God or Capital."

"The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order."

"It is when the majorities are denied their right to participate in history as Subjects that they become dominated and alienated."

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"The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of "fatalism."

— Leon Trotsky, b. 1879View →

"Every revolutionary party finds its chief support in the younger generation of the rising class. Political decay expresses itself in a loss of ability to attract youth."

— Leon Trotsky, b. 1879View →

"Inside the Party, Stalin has put himself above all criticism and the State. It is impossible to displace him except by assassination. Every oppositionist becomes ipso facto a terrorist."

— Leon Trotsky, b. 1879View →

"The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism."

— Leon Trotsky, b. 1879View →

"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."

— Leon Trotsky, b. 1879View →

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