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Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he anythin

Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.

Friedrich Engels

Science Marxism Agnosticism Marx Engels

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, y

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Inspirational Capitalism Apathy Resistance Socialism Marxism Inevitability

When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is t

When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a Newtonian or of a biologist when asked if he is a Pasteurian.

Ernesto Guevara

Science Evolution Marxism

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinkin

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Freedom Love Peace Democracy Communism Socialism Marxism Liberation Theology Radicalism

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Gove

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Freedom Democracy Communism Revolution Rebellion Socialism Marxism Radicalism

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For som

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde Wurm:An inordinate proportion of the Marxists I have known would probably have formulated their own views in much the same way. It was almost a point of honor not to engage in 'thinking with the blood,' to borrow a notable phrase from D.H. Lawrence, and to immerse Jewishness in other and wider struggles. Indeed, the old canard about 'rootless cosmopolitanism' finds a perverse sort of endorsement in Jewish internationalism: the more emphatically somebody stresses that sort of rhetoric about the suffering of others, the more likely I would be to assume that the speaker was a Jew. Does this mean that I think there are Jewish 'characteristics'? Yes, I think it must mean that.

Christopher Hitchens

Compassion Africa Jews Empathy Marxism Plantation Africans Dh Lawrence Europeans Internationalism Jewish Question Mathilde Verne

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

Equality Orwell Capitalism Poor Communism Rich Socialism Marxism

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and white men. But in reality there is no such difference. The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. Change places, and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Everyone who has mixed on equal terms with the poor knows this quite well. But the trouble is that intelligent, cultivated people, the very people who might be expected to have liberal opinions, never do mix with the poor. For what do the majority of educated people know about poverty?

Equality Poverty Orwell Capitalism Communism Rich Socialism Marxism