“I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics.” IfsWayShowsPoliticsSpecialPaintingShoesCommunistHammers Author:Pablo Picasso
“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.” NeedsWould BePoliticsEconomyConditionsTransformationPropertyComplicatedLiberalismCommunistCapitalistExtensionsRestorationLengthy 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.” MenWisdomBodyFormPoliticsIndividualCommonEconomyUniversalPropertyIllDoctrineEaseLiberalismProtestMidstCivilizedCommunistDefiniteIndividual FreedomSubversion 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.” BelieveTwoWisdomPoliticsEconomyShareFairsStealingLiberalismPocketsCommunistCigarFair ShareSharing 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.” MenStatesWisdomFacesPoliticsEconomyPathTakenRevolutionOppositesLiberalismCommunistCapitalistOwnershipPreventing 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.” WisdomPoliticsGivenBornEconomyHorseUnionsLiberalismCollectivesCommunistFarmersSovietSoviet UnionBarns Author:Nikita Khrushchev
“The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.” WisdomFormPoliticsPartyEconomyViolenceLiberalismCommunistDictatorshipRecourseCommunist Party Author:Leon Trotsky
“What do you want to do with the [Communist] Party? A racing stable? What good is it to sharpen a knife every day if you never useit for slicing? A party is never more than a means. There is only one objective: power.” IfsWantMeanPoliticsPartyPowerObjectivesCommunismCommunistRacingKnivesStableCommunist Party Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“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
“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.” PoliticalPoliticsFreedomRevolutionCapitalismRemainsSlaveAncientCommunismGreekOwnersRepublicCommunistTyrantsIndividualismCapitalistAncient GreekSlave Owners Author:Vladimir Lenin