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. […]
Communism Quotes
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 […]
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 […]
Communist, n. A person who adheres to the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin. No member of the U.S. media knows any such person, nor ever has. Probably no such person ever existed. If such a person did exist, he or she was undoubtedly full of good intentions, though perhaps […]
There are some individuals of whom it would not be unjust to or even unkind to say that they had outlived themselves… We all know men and women who have become so transformed by age and experience that they no longer exhibit those distinctive traits of thought, feeling, and character that have defined their personality […]
The argument, now, is about whether Bolshevik Russia was, ‘better’ than Nazi Germany. In the days when the New Left dawned, the, argument was about whether Bolshevik Russia was better than America.
