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Class Struggle Quotes: Views on Capital and Reform

Politics, Capital, Reform

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.

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

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

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

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

Abandonment Quotes

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

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

What historical shift does one quote describe regarding China's economic policy?
One quote describes Reform and Opening Up as beginning with the Abandonment of the Mao-era policy that used class struggle as a guiding principle, replaced instead by a commitment to economic development.
How do these quotes describe the relationship between invasion and class struggle?
One quoted view argues that in capitalist history, invasion and class struggle aren't opposites at all, but that one serves as the means and expression of the other, according to that author's analysis.
Is class struggle discussed only in economic terms in these quotes?
No, one quote explicitly ties revolution and class struggle to everyday life, arguing that talking about either without understanding what's subversive in love and constraint misses the point, reflecting that particular author's broader view.
Do these quotes present class struggle as connected to capital directly?
Yes, one quote describes invasion as a weapon used by capital against the class struggle, while the pursuit of that struggle is described as an effective countermeasure, again reflecting the quoted author's own stated position.
Are these quotes presented as facts or as one side's opinion?
They're presented strictly as the quoted individuals' own political viewpoints on class struggle, capital and revolution, not as this page's endorsement of any particular position.

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