“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned by Belgians.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Perestroika was an impossible idea on the face of it. The Party was setting out to employ its structures of command to… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I was working in the gap where Martin Luther King, Jr. quoted communism and Warhol appropriated the protest image and named it… — Kelley Walker Copy Share Image
Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact,… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
“Why?' Said Harry. 'For the big idea, Oliver. Someone comes up with the big idea - could be religion, could be politics,… — Stephen Hunt Copy Share Image
“I belong to a generation that came of age listening to news of the collapse of the Communist dicatorships and never felt… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Even if leftists were able to get control of every institution they want to destroy, what they want is not possible. The… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“In Russia, Stalin ordered Soviet scientists to prove that communism creates unselfish people, a trait which then could be inherited over generations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Marx wrote about finance and industry all his life but he only knew two people connected with financial and industrial processes. One… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“In the people's democracies, the Communists speak of the "New Faith" and compare its growth to that of Christianity in the Roman… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“I remembered Papa talking about Stalin confiscating peasants' land, tools, and animals. He told them what crops they would produce and how… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“If the immediate postwar period had been characterized by violent attacks on the existing institutions of civil society, after 1948 the regimes… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“To say it's the poor quality of the paint under socialism is correct, but it is not enough. To say it's soft-coal… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I believe that we have to strive for a transition to a socialist society ... all the way to communism. I mean… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“...[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good.… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
“But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country’s economic achievement since the… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
“And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force.… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
The impulse to make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free is an old one ... When we are badly frightened, we… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too.… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
“What the engineers had first seen in the October coup d'état was ruin. (And for three years there had been ruin and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
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I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
Conservatives recognize there's gonna be winners and losers. The communists say that's not right. There shouldn't be any losers, and they set… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
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