Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false.
If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
I still think like a Marxist in many ways.
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.