“This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.” WorldNeedsKindHas BeensI CanProblemCompanyRepublicanPagesCapitalismUnionsInvestmentAdministrationEnterpriseInvestorsSovietRegulationRecallsSoviet UnionSmall BusinessPlagueHiringPlaces In The WorldFree Enterprise Author:John McCain
“If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoBrainGrewGrew UpCapitalismWingsUnionsKillingTwo ThingsSovietDictatorshipSoviet UnionMarxismLiberatingRight WingBrazilCzechoslovakiaControlling Everything Author:Jose Padilha
“The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.” WorldMayMadePoliticalPoliticsEffortEconomicProduceEssentialsCapitalismTraditionStructureCompetitionUnionsWesternSocialismMade ItCommunismFascinatingDivisionCommunistSovietBrutalDictatorSoviet UnionObserversMonopolySurvivingHumaneDisadvantagesPolitical PowerWestern WorldApproximationDispassionate Author:John Dos Passos
“Russia, despite its heavy flirtation with capitalism and some quite unsavory oligarchs, is still building its foreign policy on the Soviet ideals of internationalism, solidarity and logic. And even domestically, President [Vladin]Putin is slowly, step-by-step, restoring many important Soviet achievements that were torpedoed by a nitwit, and one gangster - [Mikhail] Gorbachev and [Boris] Yeltsin.” StillsImportantPresidentStepsPolicyBuildingAchievementCapitalismIdealsLogicHeavyRussiaDespiteSovietForeign PolicySolidarityPutinGangstersRestoringFlirtationInternationalismGorbachev Author:Andre Vltchek
“It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt Soviet propaganda represented it this way. But who believes Soviet propaganda? It is remarkable (but maybe not so remarkable after all, when you consider their motives) that apologists for capitalism, who would not accept Soviet propaganda on any other point, are eager to agree with it on this point.” ThinkingWayBelieveAcceptingDoubtCapitalismAgreeAbsurdPropagandaMotiveNo DoubtRemarkableApplicationSovietMarxismSoviet Propaganda Author:Allen W. Wood
“The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.” FirstsSaidStatesBigsMovingGoalSecretDemocracyRevolutionPeriodsCapitalismClaimsMovedUnionsSocialismTendenciesRevolutionaryGermanyOrthodoxSovietExpectingSocialistThey SaidSoviet UnionMarxistMoved OnStalinismBolsheviks Author:Noam Chomsky
“Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.” MeanForceCommonLandCapitalismRemainsPlantSocialismGermanyEtcItalianFascismSovietFactoriesOwnershipTransportationMeans Of Transportation Author:Joseph Stalin
“I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a problem for all rock musicians in the Soviet Union. My friends liked it, but all the Communist officials, bureaucrats, teachers, didn't like this. There was very powerful propaganda against capitalism and the Western ideology. Everything that was connected to the West - rock music, jeans, long hair, loud music - everything was not allowed. But luckily that's now in the past. I hope.” LongProblemPastPowerfulTeacherStudentsMusicianCapitalismWesternIdeologyPropagandaCommunistSovietSoviet UnionVery PowerfulRock MusicLong Hair Author:Albert Kuvezin
“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.” CountryLiteratureDemocracyCapitalismUnionsCommunismSovietSoviet UnionAmerican Capitalism Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.” PeopleFirstsHumansReasonEvilToo MuchFailingCenturyStyleHuman NatureCapitalismTwentiesCommunismSovietFlawedUndoneEdificeHuman IntelligenceToo Much Power Book:Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire Source: Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire
“We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people, as in the Soviet Union. As far as women are concerned, the U.S.S.R. is a trailblazer for equal rights and equal opportunities.” PeopleOpportunityWomenPartyDemocracyRightsEconomicEqualMembersCapitalismConcernedAspectUnionsCommunistSovietSoviet UnionExclusiveEqual RightsIdentificationEqual OpportunityCommunist PartyTrailblazers Author:Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
“In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.” WorldEndsPoliticsCapitalismTriumphRepublicFuneralSoviet Author:Vladimir Lenin