Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)
Moscou aller-retour. Saint Etienne: De l’Aube, 1995.
Press Conference for Washington Post and Newsweek (17 November 1988) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107390 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) French philosopher (1930-2004)
Moscou aller-retour. Saint Etienne: De l’Aube, 1995.
“Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century.”
Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009) Philosopher, historian of ideas
Epilogue, p. 1206
Main Currents Of Marxism (1978)
Context: Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century. It was a dream offering the prospect of a society of perfect unity, in which all human aspirations would be fulfilled and all values reconciled.
Girilal Jain (1924–1993) Indian journalist
Page 152, The Hindu Phenomenon, ISBN 81-86112-32-4.
On Marxism
Zeev Sternhell (1935) Israeli historian
Source: The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution, 1994, p. 5
A. James Gregor (1929–2019) American political scientist
Source: The Phoenix: Fascism in Our Time, (1999), p. 93
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Combat Liberalism (1937)
Original: (zh-CN) 自由主义者以抽象的教条看待马克思主义的原则。他们赞成马克思主义,但是不准备实行之,或不准备完全实行之,不准备拿马克思主义代替自己的自由主义。这些人,马克思主义是有的,自由主义也是有的:说的是马克思主义,行的是自由主义;对人是马克思主义,对己是自由主义。两样货色齐备,各有各的用处。这是一部分人的思想方法。
Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) American academic
"Elements That Are Wanted," Partisan Review (September/October 1940)
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
The Mike Wallace Interview (1958)
Context: The people that weren't traditionally religious, conventionally religious, had a religion of their own in my youth. These were liberals who believed in the idea of progress or they were Marxists. Both of these secular religions have broken down. The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion. But now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1930s, Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm (March 1913) <br class="br">1910s <br class="br">Context: Throughout the civilised world the teachings of Marx evoke the utmost hostility and hatred of all bourgeois science (both official and liberal), which regards Marxism as a kind of “pernicious sect”. And no other attitude is to be expected, for there can be no “impartial” social science in a society based on class struggle. In one way or another, all official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. To expect science to be impartial in a wage-slave society is as foolishly naïve as to expect impartiality from manufacturers on the question of whether workers’ wages ought not to be increased by decreasing the profits of capital.