Communism Quotes

(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 […]

I turned to Brecht and asked him why, if he felt the way he did about Jerome and the other American Communists, he kept on collaborating with them, particulary in view of their apparent approval or indifference to what was happening in the Soviet Union… Brecht shrugged his shoulders and kept on making invidious remarks […]

While this party and its friends see ultimate goals which are the same as ours, the intoxication of power has seduced them… Fair becomes foul, foul becomes fair! (describing the Bolshevik Party)

I am here today demanding that Attorney-General Tom Clark institute proceedings to deport Charlie Chaplin. He has refused to become an American citizen. His very life in Hollywood is detrimental to the moral fabric of America. In that way he can be kept off the American screen and his loathsome pictures can be kept from […]