Argument Quote by Martin Amis

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

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

— Tom Shadyac

Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power.…

— Arundhati Roy

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than…

— Anonymous

“The thing that made Communism seem so plausible to me was my own lack of logic which failed to distinguish between the reality of…

— Thomas Merton

“Communism went against life, against man’s fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will…

— Gordon G. Chang

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

— Thomas Woods

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China.…

— Bill Ayers

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

— Jack Kemp

“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

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt