{"quotes":[{"text":"... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.","author":"Ernesto Cardenal","tags":["catholicism","marxism","poetry"],"id":3406,"author_id":"Ernesto+Cardenal"},{"text":"The revolutionary woman knows the world she seeks to overthrow is precisely one in which love between equal human beings is well nigh impossible. We are still part of the ironical working-out of this, our own cruel contradiction. One of the most compelling facts which can unite women and make us act is the overwhelming indignity or bitter hurt of being regarded as simply ‘the other’, ‘an object’, ‘commodity’, ‘thing’. We act directly from a consciousness of the impossibility of loving or being loved without distortion. But we must still demand now the preconditions of what is impossible at the moment. It is a most disturbing dialectic, our praxis of pain.","author":"Sheila Rowbotham","tags":["consciousness","human-rights","humanity","love","marxism","philosophy","revolution","socialism","woman","women","women-s-liberation","women-s-rights"],"id":9792,"author_id":"Sheila+Rowbotham"},{"text":"Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financial and industrial processes. One was his uncle in Holland, Lion Philips, a successful businessman who created what eventually became the vast Philips Electric Company. Uncle Philips' views on the whole capitalist process would have been well-informed and interesting, had Marx troubled to explore them. But he only once consulted him, on a technical matter of high finance, and though he visited Philips four times, these concerned purely personal mattes of family money. The other knowledgeable man was Engels himself. But Marx declined Engel's invitation to accompany him on a visit to a cotton mill, and so far as we know Marx never set foot in a mill, factory, mine or other industrial workplace in the whole of his life.","author":"Paul Johnson","tags":["communism","marx","marxism"],"id":16418,"author_id":"Paul+Johnson"},{"text":"A society whose members are helpless need idols.","author":"Erich Fromm","tags":["inspirational","marxism","psychology","sociology"],"id":19197,"author_id":"Erich+Fromm"},{"text":"[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.","author":"Leon Trotsky","tags":["atheism","atheist","beauty","communism","death","dialectical-materialism","enjoyment","happiness","hope","irreconcilable-atheism","irreconcilable-atheist","life","love","magnanimity","marxism","materialism","materialist","oppression","proletarian","red-army","revolutionist","soviet","suffering","tenderness","true-love","violence","wife","youth"],"id":20693,"author_id":"Leon+Trotsky"},{"text":"Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's white radical allies. They understood it instinctively, and revolutionary theory had little to do with it. What Wright could not see was that what the Negro's allies feared most of all was that this sleeping, dream-walking black giant might wake up and direct the revolution all by himself, relegating his white allies to a humiliating second-class status. The negro's allies were not about to tell the Negro anything that might place him on the path to greater power and independence in the revolutionary movement than they themselves had. The rules of the power game meant that unless the American Negro taught himself the profound implications of his own revolutionary significance in America, it would never be taught to him by anybody else. Unless the Negro intellectuals understood that in pursuit of this self-understanding, they would have to make their own rules, by and for themselves, nationalism would forever remain--as it was for Wright-- 'a bewildering and vexing question.","author":"Harold Cruse","tags":["black-americans","black-intellectuals","class","culture","culture-and-imperialism","independence","independent-thought","intellectuals","marxism","nationalism","race","race-in-america","self-awareness","self-understanding"],"id":20849,"author_id":"Harold+Cruse"},{"text":"The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","buy","buyer","buyers","capitalism","childfree","childless","collapse","communism","consumer","consumerism","consumers","credit","debt","deep","democracy","dictum","dictums","economies","economy","enjoy","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","karl-marx","made-me-think","make-you-think","marxism","materialism","maxim","maxims","own","ownership","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","realization","realize","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","selfish-selfishness","socialism","socialist","socialists","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful","world-economies"],"id":25717,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.","author":"John McCarthy","tags":["youth","marxism","sign "],"id":26757,"author_id":"John+McCarthy"},{"text":"Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.","author":"Eric Hoffer","tags":["christianity","jesus","marx","marxism"],"id":27254,"author_id":"Eric+Hoffer"},{"text":"Society reproduces itself antagonistically.","author":"Rudolf J. Siebert","tags":["inspirational","marxism","psychology","sociology"],"id":27584,"author_id":"Rudolf+J.+Siebert"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":122,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}