Communism Quote by John Ralston Saul

We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that…

— Svetlana Alexievich

This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written…

— Bill Bryson

In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

— Roger Lowenstein

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning…

— Charles Taylor

When communism collapsed in 1989, the big story that had been hardwired into citizens of western countries - that of the global battle against…

— Adam Curtis

“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade…

— Timothy Snyder

Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic…

— Michael Ignatieff

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism…

— Jim Stanford

Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles…

— Robert Kennedy

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that…

— Steven Pinker

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

— P. J. O'Rourke

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States…

— John Kenneth Galbraith