All I can say is, it's a good thing we didn't win the…

“Stalin’s position seems ambiguous here: one can imagine a Stalinist purge as the effort to liquidate all chimney sweepers who disturb socialist harmony –…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Sometimes Karl, you have to realize your weeknesses and be willing to discuss them with adults.”

— Molly Maguire McGill

“This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did. They wanted to have a good…

— Philip K. Dick

“I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soundtrack of my life. I…

— Bob Dylan

“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands outside time,…

— Lester Bangs

“I write about what life was like for typical young women of the sixties—not the type that made headlines, the Hanoi Janes or Angela…

— Kay Kendall

“When the hippie era ended and the hangover began, as idealism gives way to disillusionment, the hair of the marchers and street-dancers kept getting…

— Tommy Walker

The poem that comes closest to saying what I think is the one in Human Wishes called "Rusia en 1931." This poem is about…

— Robert Hass

I came out of a lower-middle-class background. At that time, everyone used to define themselves: Stalinist, Maoist, whatever. I thought they meant 'miaowist'. Seriously!…

— Seymour Hersh

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

'Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.

— Sarah Weinman

I haven't read Horowitz. I didn't used to read him when he was a Stalinist, and I don't read him today.

— Noam Chomsky

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go…

— Robyn Hitchcock

If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.

— John McDonnell

I was a Stalinist in the '30s. I had come from a Russian revolutionary family who simply were elated by the fact that the…

— Murray Bookchin