Quotes and Sayings about communism

Communism Topics

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Tags: communism democracy freedom history hope individualism philosophy politics revolution socialism

Dressler:
Most people believe the twentieth century was defined by the death struggle of communism versus capitalism, and that fascism was but a hiccup. Today we know better. Communism was a fool's errand, the followers of Marx gone from this Earth; but the followers of Hitler abound and thrive.

Tags: People Quotes Communism Quotes Day Quotes Death Quotes Fascism Quotes

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Tags: communism democracy freedom history hope individualism philosophy politics revolution socialism

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

Tags: class communism marxism social socialism

Serge Trifkovic:
Both Communism and Islam seek the end of history in this world. The end of history will come when either the whole of our planet becomes dark, for Islam, or else when the proletariat revolution brings the avant garde of the working class to power all over the world, which will be the end of state, the end of money, and the end of class oppression.

Tags: Power Quotes Class Quotes Communism Quotes History Quotes Will Quotes

Dressler:
Most people believe that the 20th century was a death struggle between Communism and Capitalism, and that Fascism was but a hiccup. But today we know better. Communism was a fool's errand. The followers of Marx gone from this earth, but the followers of Hitler abound and thrive. Hitler, however, had one great disadvantage. He lived in a time when Fascism, like a virus... like the AIDS virus... needed a strong host in order to spread. Germany was that host. But Germany did not prevail. The world was too big. Fortunately, the world has changed. Global communications, cable TV, the internet. Today the world is smaller and a virus does not need a strong host in order to spread. The virus... is airborne. One more thing. Let no man call us crazy. They called Hitler crazy. But Hitler was not crazy. He was stupid. You don't fight Russia *and* America. You get Russia and America to fight each other... and destroy each other.

Tags: People Quotes America Quotes Communism Quotes Day Quotes Death Quotes

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Tags: communism democracy freedom history hope individualism philosophy politics revolution socialism

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Tags: activist common communism democracy philosophy radical revolution sense socialism

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

Tags: communism regulation socialism

...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced.

Tags: capitalism collective communism existence marxism socialism sociology utopia

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong indigenous Communist forces in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, but in Hungary and Poland the Communists were a small minority and knew it, were dependent on the Red Army and aware of the fact, and were disproportionately Jewish and widely detested for that reason. Many of the penal labor camps constructed by the Nazis were later used as holding pens for German deportees by the Communists, and some of those who ran these grim places were Jewish. Nobody from Israel or the diaspora who goes to the East of Europe on a family-history fishing-trip should be unaware of the chance that they will find out both much less and much more than the package-tour had promised them. It's easy to say, with Albert Camus, 'neither victims nor executioners.' But real history is more pitiless even than you had been told it was.

Tags: antisemitism camus communism czechoslovakia germans history hungary ideology israel jews nazis poland revenge stalin

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience. I first became involved with the Czech opposition in 1968 when it was an intoxicating and celebrated cause. Then, during the depressing 1970s and 1980s I was a member of a routine committee that tried with limited success to help the reduced forces of Czech dissent to stay nourished (and published). The most pregnant moment of that commitment was one that I managed to miss at the time: I passed an afternoon with Zdenek Mlynar, exiled former secretary of the Czech Communist Party, who in the bleak early 1950s in Moscow had formed a friendship with a young Russian militant with an evident sense of irony named Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev. In 1988 I was arrested in Prague for attending a meeting of one of Vaclav Havel's 'Charter 77' committees. That outwardly exciting experience was interesting precisely because of its almost Zen-like tedium. I had gone to Prague determined to be the first visiting writer not to make use of the name Franz Kafka, but the numbing bureaucracy got the better of me. When I asked why I was being detained, I was told that I had no need to know the reason! Totalitarianism is itself a clich

Tags: 1950s 1968 1970s 1980s 1988 allegiance arguments arrest boredom bureaucracy charm cliches commitment communism czechoslovakia detention dissent exile generosity gorbachev history humour irony kafka loyalty mandela mediocrity moscow police politics prague

The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a 'furniture facility.' It had then been vandalized and perhaps accidentally set aflame by incurious and callous local 'youths.' Only the well-crafted walls really stood, though a recent grant from the European Union had allowed a makeshift roof and some wooden scaffolding to hold up and enclose the shell until further notice. Adjacent were the remains of a mikvah bath for the ritual purification of women, and a kosher abattoir for the ritual slaughter of beasts: I had to feel that it was grotesque that these obscurantist relics were the only ones to have survived. In a corner of the yard lay a pile of smashed stones on which appeared inscriptions in Hebrew and sometimes Yiddish. These were all that remained of the gravestones. There wasn't a Jew left in the town, and there hadn't been one, said Mr. Kichler, since 1945.

Tags: 1945 abattoirs animals communism desecration hebrew jews judaism mikvahs nazis obscurantism relics religion rituals synagogues tombstones vandalism wroclaw yiddish

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Tags: communism democracy freedom history hope individualism philosophy politics revolution socialism

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Tags: communism democracy freedom history hope individualism philosophy politics revolution socialism

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Tags: communism democracy funny humour politics revolution socialism

An army of the people is invincible!

Tags: chinese commie communism people prolitariat revolution soviet

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Tags: activisim communism democracy freedom socialism

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Tags: communism democracy freedom history hope individualism philosophy politics revolution socialism

Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were convicted at Nuremberg, including Hitler's former envoy to the Vatican, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, who was found guilty of planning aggression against Czechoslovakia and committing atrocities against the Jewish people. On the same day, the State of Israel celebrated its first Passover seder and the United Nations, still meeting in those days at Flushing Meadow in Queens, voted to consider the Jewish state's application for membership. In Damascus, eleven newspapers were closed by the regime of General Hosni Zayim. In America, the National Committee on Alcoholism announced an upcoming 'A-Day' under the non-uplifting slogan: 'You can drink

Tags: albania alcohol alcoholism antisemitism astrology astronomy beijing birth birthdays breastfeeding britain censorship china communism corfu czechoslovakia damascus diplomacy gods history hitler horoscopes israel jews mars nato nazis newspapers nurember