Abolish Quote by Anatoly Chubais

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

— Anatoly Chubais

The Bolsheviks did not seize power; they picked it up.

— Adam Ulam

“Everyone starved. Starvation is a potent weapon, and the Bolsheviks are happy to wield it. The cheapest way to get rid of the opposition…

— Jane Smiley

“When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such…

— Joseph Stalin

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

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

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

“One result of the Bolshevik conquest of half of Western Europe is that they have reduced the scale of living in those countries to…

— Ladislas Farago

Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process…

— John Maynard Keynes

“...you must remember that the political development of the masses proceeds not in a direct line, but in a complicated curve. And is not…

— Leon Trotsky

“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process…

— John Maynard Keynes

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads,…

— Michael Bennett