Bolsheviks Quote by Anastas Mikoyan

There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi…

— Noam Chomsky

From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it.

— Eugene V. Debs

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

The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik -…

— Emma Goldman

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the…

— Terry Eagleton

Western intellectuals, and also Third World intellectuals, were attracted to the Bolshevik counter-revolution because Leninism is, after all, a doctrine which says that the…

— Noam Chomsky

In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party…

— Leon Trotsky

Sincerity is all that counts. It's a widespread modern heresy. Think again. Bolsheviks are sincere. Fascists are sincere. Lunatics are sincere. People who believe…

— Tom Driberg

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous…

— Vladimir Lenin

The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy, for the…

— Noam Chomsky

The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period.…

— Noam Chomsky