Communist Quotes
Firsthand reflections on a defining ideology
These communist quotes offer historical perspective, including reflections on why the Soviet Union's ruling party ultimately fell apart and how conflicts arose between communist nations. Read more in Country quotes.
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.
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The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democratic than any regime run by any clique the Chinese Communist Party's ruling elite has vomited up since the days of Mao Zedong.
Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth at death to be counterproductive.
Been Quotes
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
China Quotes
The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an overlapping of membership all along the line.
The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.
My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea.
I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
Communist Party Quotes
I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.
According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.
I think the word 'progressive' is a very devious term. It was created as a substitute for 'communist.' What they propose is the reverse of progress.
No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.
Country Quotes
The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.
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