Communism Quotes

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

I have seen the future, and it works. (After visiting Russia in 1919)

Socialism: You have two cows – give one to your neighbor. Communism: You have two cows. Give them both to the government. Government gives you milk. Fascism: Government shoots you and takes cows. New Dealism: Government shoots one cow, milks the other and pours the milk down the sink. Capitalism: Slaughter cow. Compete with McDonald’s. […]

A red is any son-of-a-bitch who wants thirty cents an hour when we’re paying twenty-five!

Can someone remind me why levying taxes to build armies is fine, but levying taxes for hospitals are communist. I keep forgetting.

I wonder… whether you believe your own accounts of children ground up under our tanks, of huts blown up and refugees machine-gunned. But perhaps you will believe anything you are instructed to believe. And so I will ask your readers who are not instructed: Why, if we are so brutal to refugees, do they always […]

I’d rather be red than dead.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

I’d rather be dead than red.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity – in short, of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal.