Capitalist Quote by Joseph Stalin

What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Both we and the Soviets face the common threat of nuclear destruction and there is no likelihood that either capitalism or communism will survive…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical…

— Victor Serge

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean…

— Leon Trotsky

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and…

— Karl Marx

The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of…

— Boris Yeltsin

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

— Karl Liebknecht

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would…

— Slavoj Zizek

I didn't believe that the Soviet Union would ever break down.

— Olga Tokarczuk

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

— Fran Lebowitz

There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.

— Anonymous