If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.
“If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.”
— John McDonnell · Marx
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If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.
“If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.”
— John McDonnell · Marx
Explore more quotes by John McDonnell on topics like Marx, wisdom, and life lessons.
“If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.”
“We believe that leaders should be following the masses. We only ran in leadership campaigns to get our ideas across, to use it as a platform.”
“We need to promote employment through investment in major public works schemes to meet the U.K.'s needs.”
“To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers.”
“I'm a plain speaker.”
“When governments fail us, what else can people do except take to direct action? When corporate power can so dominate government policy-making that whole communities are placed at risk, where else can people turn?”
“I love the Marx Brothers.”
“That was how I had developed my singing style in the first place - imitating other singers like George Michael and Richard Marx.”
“This sounds ridiculous, but my political inspiration is not Marx or Engels or anything like that. It was my mum.”
“I hear Shakespeare, sometimes, the way other people might hear God or Marx or something. But he's so different from that.”
“I was always a fan of Groucho Marx as a kid.”
“I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.”