Adaptation Quote by Richard Pipes

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that…

— Christopher Hitchens

What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism…

— Leonard Read

“Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the democracies in…

— Timothy Snyder

Communism and fascism were born out of frustration with an establishment that still knew royalty and possessed very few of the characteristics we commonly…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral…

— Margaret Thatcher

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the…

— Benito Mussolini

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business,

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also…

— Karl Marx

The rout of fascism, in which the Soviet Union played the decisive role, generated a mighty tide of socio-political changes which swept across the…

— Leonid Brezhnev

There is no difference in principle, ... between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which…

— Benito Mussolini