Quotes About Communism

The communists have a special disdain for lawyers. Perhaps it is because there will be no need for lawyers when there are no rights to defend. At any rate, Foster has said, "The pest of lawyers will be abolished.

Actually the vast majority of Negroes and members of foreign-language groups have rejected communism for what it is: a heartless, totalitarian way of life which completely disregards the dignity of man.

a funeral dirge will be sung either over the Soviet Republic

It is a bitter irony of history, indeed, that the founder of communism should be literally kept alive by a wealthy industrialist, and that a "capitalist's" son, turned communist, should become the second "father" of this revolutionary movement.

Communism is the very opposite of liberalism. Liberalism means increased rights for the citizen; a curb on the powers of the central government; freedom of speech, religion, and the press.

Communists are not progressives.

After 20 years of climate diplomacy, the undeniable fact is that the three main factors that have reduced GHG emissions are, in increasing importance: global recession, the collapse of communism, and China's one child policy. The Rio dream is over.

Contrary to the popular view, Marx did not predict the formation of communist countries, with which he is so closely identified. Rather, he predicted that capitalism would be utterly successful on a number of fronts.

Everybody could have everything they wanted, so there would no longer be any real need for class divisions. Capitalism was destined to create the conditions necessary for the coming of the true "end of history", in which all contradictions disappear. However, for the end of history to come, capitalism must first collapse and make room for true communism. This will necessarily happen, according to Marx, because of the inner workings of capitalism.

Capitalism, it is said, is a system wherein man exploits man. And communism—is vice versa.

It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice. But many of those who made that choice in those days changed sides when some of the worst features of Stalinism became apparent. I stayed the course.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much.

Nikolai Bukharin [1888–1938], a Communist author who lived in a Communist country, wrote a pamphlet in 19175, in which he said, we asked for freedom of the press, thought, and civil liberties in the past because we were in the opposition and needed these liberties to conquer. Now that we have conquered, there is no longer any need for such civil liberties.

Es cierto, habría sido una empresa sin esperanza atacar abiertamente la libertad y defender sinceramente un retorno al sometimiento y la esclavitud. Pero el antiliberalismo se apoderó de las mentes de las personas camufladas como superliberalismo, como el cumplimiento y la consumación de las mismas ideas de autodeterminación y libertad. Vino disfrazado de socialismo, comunismo y planificación.

He has said you can be a capitalist, and be a good person, or be a communist, and be good. What you can't be is a terrorist and a good person.

The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flag…The American people will hoist it themselves.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.

Goldberg argues that fascism and communism, far from being opposites, are "closely related historical competitors for the same constituents.

As the German sociologist Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in a book tellingly titled Three New Deals, progressivism, Communism and National Socialism (also called fascism) were all sister ideologies, variations on a single theme, motivated by the same impulses, seeking to move society in a similar direction—away from free market capitalism and toward a collectivist society with the state as the instrument of the common good.