To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable. It is diluted because you can walk out. I got out in the spring of 1936. The question will be asked why I did not tell this […]
Communism Quotes
The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling.
They (right wing radicals) equate the Democratic Party with the welfare state, the welfare state with socialism, and socialism with communism. They object quite rightly to politics’ intruding on the military – but they are anxious for the military to engage in politics.
Every sincere break with Communism is a religious experience, though the Communists fail to identify its true nature, though he fail to go to the end of the experience. His break is the political expression of the perpetual need of the soul whose first faint stirring he has felt within him, years, months or days […]
Just as Marx used to say about the French “Marxists” of the late seventies: “All I know is that I am not a Marxist.”
Unlike Communists, traditional autocrats… do not disturb the habitual rhythms of work and leisure, habitual places of residence, habitual patterns of family and personal relations.
I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.
Only socialism would put up with it for so long. Capitalism would have gone bankrupt years ago. (Talking of sub-standard workmanship in the Soviet Union)
I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. (commenting on Chile, prior to Augusto Pinochet’s U.S.-supported / CIA-facilitated military coup against Chile’s democratically-elected […]
