I’ve always found it easy and pleasant to admire the Reds by merely thinking of their enemies… The Reds I knew always had the finest assortment of Tartufes and junglebellies lined up against them. I never met a greedy, goose-headed boss whose wattles didn’t quiver with rage against the Reds… The crocodile-hided Fords, the Tsaristic […]
Communism Quotes
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand – its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Half-starved people, lacking the bare necessities of life, attended meetings at which they repeated the government’s lies about how well off they were, and in a bizarre way they half-believed what they were saying… Truth, they knew, was a Party matter, and therefore lies became true even if they contradicted the plain facts of experience. […]
My son is twenty-two years old. If he had not become a Communist at twenty-two I would have disowned him. If he is still a Communist at thirty, I will do it then.
Workers of the world, awaken! Rise in all your splendid might; Take the wealth that you are making – It belongs to you by right. No one for bread will be crying, We’ll have freedom, love and health, When the grand red flag is flying In the Worker’s commonwealth.
A friend of mine was at a public meeting when an open Communist, one of the speakers’ platform, said that American policy would result in atom bombs on London. “Who’ll drop those bombs?” my friend asked. And answer came there none.
(Q”: Are you a communist? (ans.) Are you an anti-communist? (Q) Does it matter? (ans.) Well, I’m tempted to say Yes if I sense you are. I remember when I was young I would only say I was Jewish if I thought the person asking the question was anti-Semitic.
Hayek’s adversaries – Oskar Lange and company – argued that a market system had to be inferior to a centrally-planned system: at the very least, a centrally-planned economy could set up internal decision-making procedures that would mimic the market, and the central planners could also adjust things to increase social welfare and account for external […]
