I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
I still think like a Marxist in many ways.
Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.
Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations.
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.
My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.
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.