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Quotes About Communist

China, as a nation, is a country under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, but it has introduced the market economy. As a country that is under the one-party rule of the Communist Party, normally what they should be seeking is equality of results.
~ Shinzo Abe
The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
~ Pankaj Mishra
A utopia I would join in a minute is a society which could be communist or capitalist, anything, except that no woman member of it ever underwent sex unless she was hot. Pretending to be hot bears a distinct resemblance to self-rape, but it's a rape accompanied by boredom instead of fear.
~ Norman Rush
The Chinese Communist revolution, the US-supported wars against Communist guerrillas in Vietnam, Malaya, and the Philippines, the radical orientation of the postindependence regimes in Indonesia, India, and Egypt, and even the successful interventions in Guatemala and Iran convinced the Eisenhower administration that the Third World may not be ready for democracy
~ Odd Arne Westad
The word 'soviet' means 'council' in Russian (there was nothing particularly Communist about it until after 1917).
~ Orlando Figes
Gates's "Letter to Hobbyists," complaining about the unauthorized sharing of Microsoft BASIC, asked in a chiding way, "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?" Torvalds found that an odd outlook. He and Gates were from two very different cultures, the communist-tinged radical academia of Helsinki versus the corporate elite of Seattle. Gates may have ended up with the bigger house, but Torvalds reaped antiestablishment adulation.
~ Walter Isaacson
Fritzi: I made pizza! It's a tofu gluten-free pizza with low-fat cheese, brussels sprouts, broccoli, and cauliflower! Nancy: That's not a pizza! That's a communist plot! Thanks for ruining my appetite, my summer, and my faith in America!
~ Olivia Jaimes, Nancy, 2016
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.
~ Neil Sheehan
You know, a Communist's whole life work is based on complaint of how everything is done.... So if they ever get their country running good they will defeat their own cause.
~ Will Rogers
Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with that insane communist. And Putin is a little crazy as well.
~ Craig Ferguson
After suffering another insomniac night, Nixon went to the Pentagon, where the Joint Chiefs showed him maps detailing where Communist forces occupied Cambodia.
~ Tim Weiner
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
~ Ma Jian
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
~ Oswald Spengler
I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.
~ Pablo Picasso
For Xi, the Communist Party is paramount and central, the defining organizing principle for China's rise, and its discipline and control are essential.
~ Daniel Yergin
The Communist press and political meetings were suppressed; the Social Democrat newspapers and many liberal journals were suspended and the meetings of the democratic parties either banned or broken up. Only
~ William L. Shirer
Still, the talk went on, especially in the nation's capital, though by the end of 1946, I noted, it was beginning to shift toward fear of Russian spies. Wild charges were beginning to be made that some of our most eminent statesmen were agents of Moscow and participants in a Communist conspiracy. Certain politicians were drumming up fear that our Communists, who couldn't elect a dogcatcher in any state of the Union, were about to take over the Republic.
~ William L. Shirer
Four years later, the comparison worked in the opposite direction: after having looted the watches, the jewelry, the clothes from all of Eastern Europe, the Soviet soldier returned grumbling to the USSR, astonished at the comfort of the non-Communist countries and disgusted with his "paradise" of wooden spoons, tattered dresses, and muddy excrement stretching around his house-barracks.
~ Leon Degrelle
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
~ Leon Trotsky
Remember me as a revolutionary communist.
~ Leslie Feinberg
I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.
~ Amiri Baraka
There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'
~ Stellan Skarsgard
The rulers of the Soviet Union would have had to abandon extractive economic institutions, but such a move would have jeopardized their political power. Indeed, when Mikhail Gorbachev started to move away from extractive economic institutions after 1987, the power of the Communist Party crumbled, and with it, the Soviet Union. T
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party
~ William Saroyan