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Class Struggle Quotes: Views on Capital and Reform

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This collection presents different thinkers' views on class struggle, including one writer's account of how China's Reform and Opening Up marked an Abandonment of an earlier guiding policy.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

Commitment
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Nov 07, 2020

In my view, Reform and Opening Up began with the abandonment of the 'using class struggle as guiding principle' government policy of the Mao era and, in its place, a commitment to economic development and social harmony.

Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

History
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Nov 07, 2020

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

Hands
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Nov 07, 2020

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

Quotes by Karl Liebknecht

Book
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Nov 07, 2020

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Quotes by Ernest Mandel

Own
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Nov 07, 2020

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

Quotes by C. L. R. James

Other quotes connect class struggle to everyday life and love rather than only economics, a theme explored further in our Book quotes collection.

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