Politics Quote by John Fowles

“As the old Russian joke goes, capitalism was the exploitation of man by man, whereas communism was the reverse.”

— J.M.R. Higgs

Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account…

— Eugene Ionesco

“I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was…

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

I have argued that the Soviet story is one of the interaction of speculative excess or utopian aspirations with refractory reality.

— Paul Craig Roberts

“Although we had had no precise exponents of realism, yet after Pushkin it was impossible for a Russian writer to depart too far from…

— Lev Shestov

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“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

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

— Susan Sontag

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

“So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“Russia's fundamental problem is not that it is a poor country struggling to modernize, but rather that it is a rich country struggling to…

— Fareed Zakaria

“Here was the Russia she'd loved since childhood, the dark, violent, passionate place where the life of the mind and spirit were as real…

— Natalie Standiford