#2,957

Compared to the sophisticated structure of every historical fact, Marxism’s generalizations possess a touching naiveté.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 472

#2,908

The social sciences abound in problems that are unintelligible by their very nature to both the American professor and the Marxist intellectual.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,804

Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449

#2,802

There are two equally erroneous attitudes toward Marxism: disdaining what it teaches, believing what it promises.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449

#2,691

A class-conscious proletariat, in Marxist vocabulary, means a people that has converted to bourgeois ideals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,658

The theses that the Marxist “refutes” come back to life unscathed behind his back.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,578

The Marxist’s mind fossilizes with time; the leftist’s becomes soft and spongy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 417

#2,288

Nothing is easier than to blame Russian history for the sins of Marxism.
Socialism continues to be the philosophy of shifting blame onto others.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 371

#2,130

The Marxist is beginning to feel uncomfortable because he is already viewed with more curiosity than dread.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 347

#1,829

We reactionaries will live in the future society just as uncomfortably as will the Marxists; but the Marxists will look upon it with the eyes of a dumbfounded father, while we will regard it with the irony of a stranger.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,642

Socialism is the commercial name of state capitalism on the electoral market.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,638

The Marxist calls a “class truth” a truth that his class prevents him from understanding.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,590

Marx has been the only Marxist whom Marxism has not stultified.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 264

#1,518

Class struggles are episodes.
The fabric of history is the conflict between equals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 254

#1,430

The fervor with which the Marxist invokes the future society would be moving if the rites of invocation were less bloody.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 242

#1,400

To be a Marxist appears to consist in exempting Communist societies from the Marxist interpretation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 238

#1,346

It never occurs to the intellectual who is indignant at the “embourgeoisement of the proletariat” to renounce those things whose enjoyment by the proletariat horrifies him as proof of embourgeoisement.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 231

#1,060

The proletariat gravitates to the bourgeois life, just as bodies gravitate to the center of the earth.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 188

#1,056

The contemporary reader smiles when the medieval chronicler speaks of “Roman paladins,” but he remains serious when the Marxist discusses the “Greek bourgeoisie” or “American feudalism.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 188

#1,017

Modern society becomes degraded so quickly that each new morning we contemplate with nostalgia yesterday’s adversary.
The Marxists are already starting to look like the West’s last aristocrats.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 182