“Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I think the thing about capitalism is it's an evil necessity, capitalism. Communism has been tried and failed, and socialism, that doesn't… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system,… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary… — J. P. Nettl Copy Share Image
And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not… — Ugo Cavallero Copy Share Image
“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Boom!” The thunder of a massive explosion rolled across the settlement. Maria’s sobbing came from the bedroom. Irina ran to her daughter.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved in relative ways. Faith… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union began by banishing God. The United States began as a community of people who wanted to worship God as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“It was an interesting dilemma and pointed up a real point of difference between Nazism and Communism as forms of government: there… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
"Freedom" is probably the word he said more than any other. He used the word freedom constantly. I think for some his… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“It is a prison for those who fail to recognize socialist reality; for those who think they have the right to err;… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“He smirked. “Communism? Of course not. The Soviet Union fell because communism did not understand human nature. People act in their self-interest.… — D.R. Bell Copy Share Image
I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
I think every single thing we do is political. Even if you go to the shops and buy a packet of biscuits,… — Mark Boyle Copy Share Image
“It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
“We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are… — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Copy Share Image
“Marx concocted his heresy in a time in which greatly increased knowledge of nature had, as we remarked earlier, sent Nature’s God… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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