The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisiti...on in Spain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One good reason for the popularity of "reductionism" among the philosophical outposts of the Western Establishment is that it can ...be, and is, used as a device for trying to take the wind, so to speak, out of the sails of Marxism.... In essence reductionism is a kind of anti-Marxist caricature of Marxist determinism. It is what anti-Marxists pretend that Marxist determinism is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the a...ngels, tell me who controls the production of pins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and t...o treat all others with indignation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is inde...pendent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the field of politics the equivalent of a theorem is a perfectly disciplined army; of a sonnet or picture, a police state under... a dictatorship. The Marxist calls himself scientific and to this claim the Fascist adds another: he is the poet--the scientific poet--of a new mythology.... Each applies to human situations the procedures which have proved effective in the laboratory and the ivory tower. They simplify, they abstract, they eliminate all that, for their purposes, is irrelevant.... They compel the facts to verify a favorite hypothesis, they consign to the waste paper basket all that, to their mind, falls short of perfection. And because they thus act like good artists, sound thinkers and tried experimenters, the prisons are full, political heretics are worked to death as slaves, the rights and preferences of mere individuals are ignored, the Gandhis are murdered and from morning till night a million school-teachers and broadcasters proclaim the infallibility of the bosses who happen at the moment to be in power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why juggle with the term "bourgeois" in regard to Flaubert? You know quite well that in Flaubert's sense it was not a class catego...ry. In other words, Flaubert in the eyes of Marx was a bourgeois in the Marxist sense, while Marx in Flaubert's eyes was a bourgeois in a Flaubertian sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Marxist vision of man without God must eventually be seen as an empty and a false faith--the second oldest in the world--first... proclaimed in the Garden of Eden with whispered words of temptation: "Ye shall be as gods."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mexico is a nineteenth-century country arranged for gaslight. Once brought into the harsh light of the twentieth-century media, Me...xico can only seem false. In its male, in its public, its city aspect, Mexico is an arch-tranvestite, a tragic buffoon. Dogs bark and babies cry when Mother Mexico walks abroad in the light of day. The policeman, the Marxist mayor--Mother Mexico doesn't even bother to shave her mustachios. Swords and rifles and spurs and bags of money chink and clatter beneath her skirts. A chain of martyred priests dangles from her waist, for she is an austere, pious lady. Ay, how much--clutching her jangling bosoms; spilling cigars--how much she has suffered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »