Enver Hoxha Quotes

The identification of the intellectuals with the revolutionary movement is dependent … on their complete rift with bourgeois ideology and liberalism …. The relationship of the intellectuals as a group with the working class is essentially an alliance. But the alliance can be established only on the … unadulterated principles of Marxism-Leninism.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Communism was not only defined as the things that Marx and Lenin had advocated, but included anything that had the potential for change in the society.

He was a Communist.

I am a Bolshevik.

My parents believed in the ideology of the Left. And being influenced by Marxism and Leninism theories, they chose Marlena as my second name.

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

I suspect in Lenin's works there's everything, if you search well.

I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.

The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial.

I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis...; discovering Marxism...was like finding a map in the forest.

I regard Marxism as the most sinister and the most subtle form of totalitarianism.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

The Soviet Union was pretty much what Lenin and Trotsky said it was.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.