Communism Quotes - Page 8

The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

Communism is the basis of all sociality and it's the basis of cooperation.

All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.

Communism is something that comes from the classics of Marxism that talked of a modern society we should aspire to. One that is truly fair where relations of monetary exchange are not the priority but rather one where peoples' needs could be satisfied.

To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.