744 Quotes About Communism

Oh, that's my fault,' I told Goodheart. 'I hate haggling over a pittance. It always seems so rude. And these people have so little, compared to us.' I was interested to hear the committed Communist sniff in disgust at my willingness to share the wealth.

I noticed a trend with white communists.They do not value autonomy and liberation, they value control and dominance, just like their political counterparts. They do not oppose centralized power, they oppose centralized power that they do not have ownership of.It isn't about the liberation of marginalized classes, it's about placing power within the white "working class" and those in proximity to them.

The shared view of these African American communists asserted that black workers were exploited and oppressed more than any other group. Besides, they claimed, the history of Southern blacks could be characterized as essentially a reign of terror, of slavery, segregation, disenfranchisement, lynching, persecution, rape and murder. Black middle-class reform organizations such as the NAACP and the Urban League were too diffident and controlled by white elites

We can have fully automated luxury gay space communism when we find a supply of unlimited resources – until then, we’ll have to make do with partially automated queer social liberalism.

I couldn't make any sense of this logic, that the better off got more and those had little got less. The world ran on this law and only on this.

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.

A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.'Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it.

Nobody can work with the poor and not fall over Karl Marx from time to time — or just fall over the Bible, as far as that goes.