Quotations: Marxism

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

• On Ideal and reality, their position: Political realism60%

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

• On Violence, their position: Emancipatory violence80%

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

• On Distributive justice, their position: Egalitarianism100%

In practice man must prove the truth, that is, the reality and power, the this-sidedness of his thinking.

• On Nature of truth, their position: Pragmatism60%

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

• On Individual and society, their position: Holism93%

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances directly given and inherited from the past.

• On Freedom of the will, their position: Hard determinism70%

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

• On Existence of God, their position: Atheism100%

The bourgeoisie has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.

• On Self-interest and others, their position: Altruism65%

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

• On The meaning of history, their position: Directional meaning93%

The human essence is no abstraction inherent in the isolated individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of social relations.

• On Essence and existence, their position: Existentialism75%
• On Nature and culture, their position: Culturalism90%

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.

• On Status of knowledge, their position: Constructivism80%

The modern state power is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

• On Relation to authority, their position: Anarchism75%

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.

• On The point of philosophy, their position: Changing the world100%
• On Interiority, their position: Primacy of action93%
• On Tradition and transformation, their position: Progressivism100%

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

• On Tradition and transformation, their position: Progressivism100%

The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future.

• On Temporal orientation, their position: Project80%

The worker therefore does not affirm himself in his labour but denies himself; does not feel content but unhappy.

• On Meaning of work, their position: Alienation60%

Working Men of All Countries, Unite!

• On Belonging, their position: Cosmopolitanism85%