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“The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.”

Mean Party Class Struggle Economy Creation Objectives Communist Socialist Class Struggle Communist Party Utilization Socialist Economy

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.”

Needs Would Be Politics Economy Conditions Transformation Property Complicated Liberalism Communist Capitalist Extensions Restoration Lengthy

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.”

Men Wisdom Body Form Politics Individual Common Economy Universal Property Ill Doctrine Ease Liberalism Protest Midst Civilized Communist Definite Individual Freedom Subversion

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share.”

Believe Two Wisdom Politics Economy Share Fairs Stealing Liberalism Pockets Communist Cigar Fair Share Sharing Things

Author:Giovannino Guareschi

“The path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks to diffuse the private ownership of capital instead of abolishing it entirely. It seeks to make all men capitalists instead of preventing anyone from being a capitalist by making the State the only capitalist.”

Men States Wisdom Faces Politics Economy Path Taken Revolution Opposites Liberalism Communist Capitalist Ownership Preventing

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.”

Wisdom Politics Given Born Economy Horse Unions Liberalism Collectives Communist Farmers Soviet Soviet Union Barns

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.”

Wisdom Form Politics Party Economy Violence Liberalism Communist Dictatorship Recourse Communist Party

Author:Leon Trotsky

“It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.”

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Book:Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy

Source: Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy

“When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.”

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Author:Mart Laar

“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).”

“The governments and the communist parties in Vietnam and China are doing their best to develop their local economies. But the rise of countries in Asia is not in opposition to development and affluence in Western nations. It is a mutually beneficial development. The interests of Western investors are protected in our country. Both we and the West benefit from this in equal measure.”