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It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Communism - the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.
Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it.
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work!
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men.
What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.
Growing up in a cathedral precinct, what did I know of the absurdities of communism, of how brave man and women in bleak and remote penal colonies were reduced to thinking day by day of nothing else beyond their own survival?
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.
Communism is evil. Its driving forces are the deadly sins of envy and hatred.
How easy it was to be a Communist when you weren't living under Communism!
Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.
Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.
Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.
There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Socialism is the way, the truth, and the light.
This communist talk is so confusing
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.
Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.
The tree is rotten, all it needs is a good shake and the bad apples will fall. Communism is evil. It prevents people from being free.
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.
Democracy is the breeding ground of communism,
Communism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.
Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.
Good Old Socialism ... Raping The Pocketbooks Of The Rich To Give To The Poor.
Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!
Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.
Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.
Communism starts with the proposition that there are no universal truths or general truths of human nature.
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.
Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.
I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.
Without communism ... our state lacks a Wizard of Oz to terrify all the people all the time. So the state looks inward, at the true enemy, who turns out to be - who else? the people of the United States.
When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.
Tell me, Comrade, what is capitalism?" "The exploitation of man by man." "And what is communism?" "The reverse." Okay,
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
Communism means barbarism.
You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.
Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.
Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else. It destroys the human spirit on an individual level, perverting the values of a successful free society.
Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!
The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get paid enough to buy a few fish for himself.
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
Communism has been the greatest and bloodiest illusion that humanity ever bore
Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great that they result in a radical difference in kind.
I have a problem with capitalism, in it's extreme sense. At the same time communism, I have a problem with that, because every man must feel like a lord in his own manor.
Don't be fooled into turning to Communism looking for food.
Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.
Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.
Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.
I don't really view communism as a bad thing.
I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.
The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, is the reverse.
In life you may be poor or rich, but death is the great equalizer. The greatest communism is in death. Howsoever you live, it makes no difference; death happens equally. In life, equality is impossible; in death, inequality is impossible. Become aware of it, contemplate it.
Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.
What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive endorsement of that system to which we owe all the wealth that distinguished our age from the conditions of ages gone by.
What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.
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.
In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state.
I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.
Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
Communism
the first expression of the social nature
is the first term of social development
the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term
the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.
A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.
The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA ...
Seventy years after Marx's death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations.
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.
From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!