I was a man lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cuba's political crisis long before becoming a fully- fledged communist. Discovering Marxism was like finding a map in a forest.

-Castro (Ruz), Fidel
Speech, Chile,18 Nov.

   Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism, and from it, extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly, middle-class parties their nationalism.Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as crystal, the synthesis öGerman National Socialism.

-Goering, HermannWilhelm
  Speech, Berlin, 9  Apr.

With all allowance made for Marx's erudition and his historic impact upon the social sciences, especially sociology, it is as an art united with prophecy, virtually religious prophecy, that Marxism survives.

-Nisbet, Robert
  Sociology as an  Art Form, ch.5.

Marxism is at the root of debunking journalism.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
Quoted inJohn Birt The Harder Path (2002).

Marxism is, above all, a method of analysis.

-Trotsky, Leon originally Lev Davidovich Bronstein
The Permanent Revolution.