Social hierarchy Quote by Hyeonseo Lee

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

— Karl Marx

“With relentless selectivity, the Communist machine has winnowed out the grain and retained only the chaff of Western culture.”

— Richard Crossman

“It was ironic—the great socialists could only survive by becoming capitalists.” But”

— Jeff Guinn

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

— Anonymous

“You couldn’t have established a communist regime in sixteenth-century Russia, because communism necessitates the concentration of information and resources in one hub.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“They all agreed that under communism they had been just as poor, but at least there was food and security, whereas independence had brought…

— Isabel Allende

“That is the way of management from time immemorial, in medieval feudal states, communist dictatorships, and capitalist conference rooms alike. It is the way…

— Stanley Bing

“...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which…

— Michael Burawoy

“This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.”

— Jenny Holzer

“I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

“No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler gives one special status and, usually, special privileges.…

— Peter Singer