Criticism Quote by Harold Bloom

“In an interview recorded by Mark Edmundson in Trotsky Without Orchids, Bloom described faculty politics as "Stalinism without Stalin. . . . All of…

— David Horowitz

“Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I leave to…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him…

— Che Guevara

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in…

— Vladimir Putin

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Stalin is one of the most extraordinary figures in world history. He began as a small clerk, and he has never stopped being a…

— Adolf Hitler

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

— Robert Heilbroner

We're invited to believe that the worst effects of Stalinism arose from its 'dogmatic' intransigence; but it is precisely because so much was left…

— Mark Fisher

Stalin is a shameful stain on our country's history.

— Ksenia Sobchak

It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and…

— John Dos Passos

“This absolute lack of objectivity might be said to resemble nothing so much as the lack of objectivity these same people had shown during…

— Vasily Grossman

“Russia used to be great, a nation of philosophers, brilliant thinkers, artists, and scientists. Not anymore. It hasn’t been great for a long time,…

— Penny Reid