Courses Quote by Leon Trotsky

The initiative of the Five Year Plan and of the accelerated collectivization belongs entirely to the Left Opposition, in uninterrupted and sharp struggles with…

— Leon Trotsky

The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class…

— Leon Trotsky

“While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that…

— George Orwell

“Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater desperation as…

— Timothy Snyder

“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent…

— China Miéville

I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go…

— Robyn Hitchcock

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice.…

— Kim Philby

In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers'…

— Slavoj Žižek

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the…

— Cal Thomas

Too often, we say that the Left is wrong but well-intentioned. Some are. But most simply want government to control other people's lives, and…

— Stephen Moore

The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless…

— Harrison Salisbury