Ask Terence McKenna

...e an answer to the problem of the bully and the slave, unless, as the marxists claim, that is inimical to disparity of wealth. Because I think disp...

...volutions in the world have to do with the internal contradictions of marxist-Leninism, but it may actually be that marxist-Leninism was a kind of ...

... the moment -- you used the word 'commodification' a lot -- as a post-marxist I can say that everything is being commodified now, including the Wor...

...dience laughs*] a very conservative character, you’ll recall he was a marxist who turned on marxism and led a very interesting intellectual life - ...

...hold of it, I didn't believe in it, you know, I had accepted all that marxist crap and all that existential stuff and the reductionism of science a...

... that capitalism and democracy are not at variance actually the whole marxist-Leninist socialist thing was assidish, the real life and dead struggl...

.... Because, uh, no kidding really [Terence giggle]. At age 18, I was a marxist, an existentialist, uh, I had ambitions in the field of aeronautical ...

...at we have transcended ideology. Nobody gives a hoot whether you’re a marxist or any of that anymore because we’ve all seen through that. The new i...

... quite as hard as it hit me, but I was transformed in a moment from a marxist skeptic scientist. I just -- it was then and I will say it still is n...

...could be this way. You know, I came up a whole different way, I was a marxist, and an Existentialist, and all of these things, and ti was, as you t...

...ng was to build cynical resistance to the spirit. I was an atheist, a marxist, an existentialist, a rational materialist — a pain in the neck, basi...

...emely bankrupt. The notion of any kind of serious competition between marxist-Leninism and capitalist-democratic techno-fascism, or whatever it is,...

...gns on street corners saying “Repent! Repent!” and here was I, former marxist, former this former that espousing these unimaginable things. It’s al...

...that they are deconditioning agents, that they make you question what marxist Mormon, whatever you are, if you take psychedelics you will ask quest...

...ing agents. They will cast doubt in you if you are a Hasidic rabbi, a marxist anthropologist, or an altar boy [audience laughter], because their bu...