Dictatorship Quote by 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

“...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

“I am aware always that the powers that be are so strong, we can not go headlong to pit our forces, it would be…

— Luis Taruc

“The most important one was the belief, which went back to Lenin, that capitalists would never be able to cooperate with one another for…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary, every stratagem,…

— albert camus

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

— Anatoly Chubais

“For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution, we…

— Leon Trotsky

“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth; nevertheless the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

“You're looking a bit bolshy. [...] Like a Bolshevik, [...] Someone about to start a revolution.”

— Rachel Hawkins

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