Jacques Ellul Quotes

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

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

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Under capitalism we have a state in the proper sense of the word, that is, a special machine for the suppression of one class by another.

Socialism and communism are now so near each other that there is hardly any difference between them. In the past they differed from each other as does liberalism from democracy

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Communism is nonsense.

In America power comes in the form of law and money.

Communism is not immortal; it is impossible. It doesn’t work.

All systems of political administration or governmental machinery are but the reflex of the economic forms which underlie them

The state is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class for suppressing the resistance of its class enemies.

The collectivizations and socializations in the economy count for nothing when State power is in the hands of the bourgeoisie.

We are not communists.

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

I've never said I'm a communist.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.