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Communism Quotes by Mao Zedong
- Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.
- Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.
- Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.
- There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.
- You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?
- Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
- Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.
- The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold…
- We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and…
- Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which…
- Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist…
- In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long historical…
- The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience,…
- We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of…
- There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work…
- The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such…
- By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing up plans, handling…
- In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas,…
- Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may seem a bad…
- After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first…
- "Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because…
- The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and…
- The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance…
More Communism Quotes
- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at… — Russell Baker
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams
- You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is… — Bernard Baruch
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat
- Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. — Ezra Taft Benson
- All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control… — Isaiah Berlin
- Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — James Bovard
- Communism is like one big phone company. — Lenny Bruce
- I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems. — Madeleine Albright
- America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. — George W. Bush
- There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy. — Fidel Castro