Blessing Quote by Slavoj Zizek

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a…

— George Orwell

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United…

— Frank Chodorov

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical…

— Victor Serge

Whatever the drawbacks and failures I am convinced that in years to come humanity will look back to Soviet achievements as a source of…

— Ronnie Kasrils

The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean…

— Leon Trotsky

That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I have the feeling that this Moscow Pact will at some time or other exact vengeance upon National Socialism.

— Alfred Rosenberg

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

— Paul Samuelson

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was…

— Jean-Paul Sartre