744 Quotes About Communism

History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.

Today none of the old assertions are accepted any longer just because they were written long ago. Instead, people demand proof in practice of what is asserted; they want a scientific analysis of all assertions. Out of this dissatisfaction, revolutionary ideas are born and spread more and more throughout the world, backed by the living examples of how technology can be put at the service of man, as has happened in the socialist countries.

Capitalism celebrates the freedom of disparity, Communism propagandises the equality of misery.

What is called “social” planning are in fact government orders over-riding the plans and mutual accommodations of millions of people subject to those orders.

For real wealth is the developed productive power of all individuals. The measure of wealth is then not any longer, in any way, labour time, but rather disposable time.

We are a down-trodden race.”“You are a down-trodden race because you are lazy,” said Chilke.“If I am lazy and you are not, how is it that I am carrying your baggage while you walk light-foot?”For a moment or two Chilke deigned no explanation of the seeming paradox; then he said: “If you knew anything about the laws of economics, you would not ask such a banal question.

He was explaining how capitalism is bad--and I could see he had a point, but at the same time, I got the feeling that socialism or communism, or whatever he's selling, is probably just as bad, and the problem is human beings can ruin anything, even if it's a good idea to begin with.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning.