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Quotes About Communist

The Communist Party and Karl Marx were names I had picked up on since coming to Blantyre, so I read what I could on the subject. The very last English essay I wrote in May 1961, before leaving school, was a biographical sketch of Karl Marx together with a synopsis of The Communist Manifesto, outlining Marx and Frederick Engels's views of revolution as a consequence of the class struggle.
~ stuart christie
Perveen exhaled, thinking of Alice's many controversial causes. "The Communist meetings or the marches for women's suffrage?
~ Sujata Massey
The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
~ Noam Chomsky
What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.
~ Chris Smith
It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge
In the modern world, tariffs and similar restrictions on trade have been one source of friction among nations. But a far more troublesome source has been the far-reaching intervention of the state into the economy in such collectivist states as Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Franco's Spain, and especially the communist countries, from Russia and its satellites to China.
~ Milton Friedman
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
The still small voice of Jesus the Communist stole over the earth like a soft refreshing breeze, carrying healing wherever it went.
~ Keir Hardie
If man no longer finds any meaning in his life, it makes no difference whether he wastes away under a communist or a capitalist regime. Only if he can use his freedom to create something meaningful is it relevant that he should be free. That is why finding the inner meaning of life is more important to the individual than anything else, and why the process of individuation must be given priority.
~ C.G. Jung
President Nixon's first reaction when he heard the story was to investigate those who reported the killing. He demanded to know who was backing them: "It's those dirty rotten Jews from New York who are behind it," he was sure of it. He instructed his aides to "discredit witnesses," investigate Seymour Hersh and Mike Wallace, "get ring-wingers with us," and "get out the facts about [communist] atrocities at Hue.
~ Geoffrey C. Ward
The barbarous KGB, which in the course of its existence slaughtered at least 20 million people at home and another 70 million throughout the communist world, not only survived, but it also transformed today's Russia into the first intelligence dictatorship in history. Now
~ Ion Mihai Pacepa
The Soviets were also happy to use American art forms to advance their cause in the United States. By the 1940s, American communists had fully embraced and significantly co-opted folk music. The American Communist Party was essentially an agency of the Soviet government. "Folk singers had become a ceremonial part of Communist Party meetings.
~ Ion Mihai Pacepa
in 1938 the left came to power under President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, a member of the Frente Popular, or Popular Front, in which communist and radical parties participated. After Pedro Aguirre Cerda, the deposed Ibáñez joined forces with the left, and three successive radical presidents followed
~ Isabel Allende
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.
~ Ebenezer Elliott
The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.
~ G. W. Gough
Because journalists of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty - the former broadcast into Eastern Europe, the latter into the Soviet Union - accurately depicted daily life in communist Europe, in the local languages, using native journalists, millions of people tuned in to them.
~ Anne Applebaum
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.
~ Earl Browder
There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.
~ Jeh Johnson
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
~ Leon Trotsky
Taken from a BBC documentary ] Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents.
~ Tariq Ali
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.
~ Frank Hague
I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.
~ Sergei Lavrov
Says right here you are gung-ho." "Sir, yes sir!" "What the hell does that mean?" "Sir, it is a Chinese word! There's a Communist there, name of Mao, and he's got an army. We tangled with 'em on more'n one occasion, sir. Gung-ho is their battle cry, it means 'all together' or something like that, so after we got done kicking the crap out of them, sir, we stole it from them, sir!
~ Neal Stephenson