Quotes About Communism

She'll have to learn the symbolism of the revolution," somebody said. "But why can't Communism speak a language she understands?" I asked.

Life in a Communist country is an intellectually empty life and we suffered the constant pangs of intellectual starvation.

Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration.

He believed in Communism the way most people believed in God: he would not be greatly surprised or disappointed if he turned out to be wrong, and meanwhile it made little difference to the way he lived.

Sabes lo que dice la gente? «Cuarenta y cinco años de comunismo y seguimos sin tener papel higiénico» ¡Somos pobres! El comunismo no funciona.

Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced.

La mejor protección contra el comunismo es la prosperidad. Stalin lo sabe, y por eso no quiere que Alemania salga de la pobreza.

Communism was a work in progress, with mistakes being made on the road to a fair society. The NKVD with its torture chambers was an aberration, a cancer in the body of Communism. One day it would be surgically removed. But probably not in wartime.

In 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

Cuánto tiempo necesitáis antes de que acabéis admitiendo que el comunismo es un fracaso?

Así que primero impides que consiga trabajo y luego me amenazas con meterme en la cárcel por no tenerlo. Supongo que me enviarán a un campo de trabajo, ¿verdad? Entonces sí que estaría empleada, solo que no me pagarían. Me encanta el comunismo, ¡es tan lógico! ¿Por qué habrá gente tan desesperada por escapar de él, me pregunto yo?

el mayor problema del comunismo era que el poder absoluto del partido siempre sofocaba el cambio. El

No hay justicia sin orden en las calles, y no habrá paz mientras vivamos bajo la amenaza del comunismo internacional.

Es cierto. Si algo he aprendido en España es que tenemos que combatir a los comunistas tanto como a los fascistas. Son perversos, los unos y los otros.

Volodya's happiness did not quite let him forget the horrors he had seen and the profound misgivings he had developed about Soviet Communism. The unspeakable brutality of the secret police, the blunders of Stalin that had cost millions of lives, and the propaganda that had encouraged the Red Army to behave like crazed beasts in Germany had all caused him to doubt the most fundamental things he had been brought up to believe. He

El comunismo es una misión sagrada. Está por encima de todo lo demás, incluso de nuestros lazos familiares y nuestra propia seguridad personal».

el mayor problema del comunismo era que el poder absoluto del partido siempre sofocaba el cambio.

La mejor protección contra el comunismo es la prosperidad.

Rany, nawet chinscy komunisci niejednego by sie mogli od siostry nauczyc!

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

We cannot possibly permit it, either as Communists or internationalists, or as the Soviet state. We would have capitalists on the frontier of the Soviet Union.

It has been estimated that for the next twenty years an average of a million Russian people a year were executed by the Communist regime, which, for much of that time, would be headed by the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Joseph V. Stalin.29