Blow Quote by Roger Lowenstein

The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical…

— Wilhelm Reich

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

The wild open-market theory that died in 1929 had a run of just over thirty years. Communism, a complete melding of religious, economic, and…

— John Ralston Saul

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

— Eric Hoffer

In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— J.M.R. Higgs

“One result of the Bolshevik conquest of half of Western Europe is that they have reduced the scale of living in those countries to…

— Ladislas Farago

We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that…

— Svetlana Alexievich

And Communist Russia was so bad because they followed their people, they snooped on them, they arrested them, they put them in secret prisons,…

— Steve Wozniak

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

— Rand Paul

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

— Joseph Stalin