Capitalism Quote by Michael Parenti

“Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship.”

— Oliver Bullough

“Democracy' was a sociological term in Russia in 1917, denoting the masses, the lower class, at least as strongly as it did a political…

— China Miéville

“We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Democracy is Nationalism disguised as Leninism. Totalitarian disguised as equalitarian.”

— Anonymous

“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics into one…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“As in 1917, the drift towards authoritarian government under Putin was enabled by the weakness of the middle classes and public institutions in post-Soviet…

— Orlando Figes

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“America needs a pure democracy; absolutely free of both communism and capitalism”

— Leland Lewis

“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth; nevertheless the…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— J.M.R. Higgs

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the…

— Adolf Hitler