Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

43 Marxist Quotes

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
Chains Move Notice Those
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

Against Bourgeois Capital Class
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Advance Blood Democracy Flesh
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Classes Country Course Every
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

Alone Course Democracy Development
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Creating Development Leaders Masses
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Becomes Democracy Destinies Determination
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Action Brought City Conscious
  Favorite Make wallpaper
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.
Best History Only Proletariat
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Built Decisive Element Final
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Freedom Government Members Numerous
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
Always Marxism Must New
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Always Differently Freedom Thinks
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

Aim Between Democracy Exists
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.

Antagonism Capitalist Credit Destruction
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

Alexander Apparent Collapse Depression
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.

Against Capitalist Conditions Conscious
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies in the fact that when people write, they forget for the most part to dig deeply into themselves and to feel the whole import and truth of what they are writing.

Believe Cause Colour Deeply
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development.

Accelerate Action Although Determining
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society.

Act Classes Constitution Constitutional
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

Created Form Framework Last
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this seizure of power both necessary and possible.

Because Both Conquest Contrary
  Favorite Make wallpaper
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
Acquire Capitalist Countries Era
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If I lose, it will not mean that it was impossible to win.

Lose Mean Impossible Win
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Better to die standing than to live on your knees.
Better Die Standing Live
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One must endure without losing tenderness.

One Endure Losing Tenderness
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every day people straighten up their hair, why not their heart?

Day People Straighten Hair
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

First Duty Revolutionary Educated
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We must struggle every day so that this love for humanity becomes a reality.

We Struggle Love Humanity
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To accomplish much you must first lose everything.

Accomplish Much First Lose
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.
Words Match Deeds Unimportant
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

We Right Believe Freedom
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Passion Great Work Revolution
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.
Live Life Celebrating Victories
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If you can find ways without any obstacles, it probably leads nowhere.

If Find Ways Obstacles
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.

Real Revolutionaries Adorn Inside
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.

Ultimate Important Revolutionary Aspiration
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

I Liberator Exist People
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Above all, try to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world.

Feel Injustice Committed Person
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Be realistic, demand the impossible.

Realistic Demand Impossible
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

Chess Means Educate Train
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It’s a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

Sad Friends Enemies
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

We Something Willing Die
  Favorite Make wallpaper