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> [I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ella-baker/i-had-been-friendly-with-people-who-were-in-the-communist-party-and/)

[Ella Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ella-baker/)

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> [“The reason why people in communist countries have less "stuff," is that these economic systems to not work very well, not because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hilmersen/the-reason-why-people-in-communist-countries-have-less-stuff-is-that/)

[Thomas Hilmersen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hilmersen/)

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> [“But after living in Communist China for the past seventeen years, I knew that such a society was only a dream because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nien-cheng/but-after-living-in-communist-china-for-the-past-seventeen-years-i/)

[Nien Cheng](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nien-cheng/)

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> [Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/without-armed-struggle-neither-the-proletariat-nor-the-people-nor-the/)

[Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/)

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