The Soviet Union model of what a Communist country is supposed to look like doesn't work for China. China has unbridled capitalism.
The Soviet Union model of what a Communist country is supposed to look like doesn't work for China. China has unbridled capitalism.
In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
If the government fails to fulfill these conditions, the Communist party reserves the right to vote against the budget in subsequent readings, ... civil disobedience and protest across the whole country.
I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.
The Russians are turning east to the Chinese - to the Europeans' surprise. It always seemed to me that the relationship between Russia and China would shift from being based in Marx and Lenin to being based in oil and gas.
I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.
I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Most people who read The Communist Manifesto probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of the workers.
Was I gung-ho about changing society when I was 18 I don't know about that. When you're 18, you're really into yourself and what's happening to your body. But I definitely had some ideas. This malaise is not confined to America either. I spotted that same attitude in kids in Eastern Europe before the fall of communism.
With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
Well, that's true... to me, communism is a... it's a graveyard of skulls, of very unhappy people, below the level of the top bureaucracy.
This is supposed to be a democratic union and it's become communist.
I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
I do not believe in Communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country several of the best friends I have got are Communists
The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while.... The beauty and cogency of the preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and forward so an indefinite future, have lifted the hearts of millions of men and will continue to do.... These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more explosive than the atom, a continual challenge to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world.
Communism in our time can no more be considered apart from the crisis clan a fever can be acted upon apart from an infected body.
Capitalism is at its liberating best in a non-capitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
You should have seen me reading Marx.
John Paul II made it clear that... liberation theology based on the teaching of Jesus Christ was necessary, but liberation theology that used a Marxist analysis was unacceptable.
The desire for freedom in China is as strong as ever before. The 1989 effort almost succeeded. The fact that it failed in 1989, the fact that the leaders - over 1,000 of them - were executed does not mean that one-fifth of the world's population wishes to be held under the thumb of communism forever.
He was very anti-Communist in his appearance, ... He would always be talking about how we should be doing more stories about the Communist menace and communist influence and Russian influence.
For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
In California yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger offered a preview of what he'll say in Ohio on Friday when he campaigns for Bush-Cheney. This reminds me of the days when Ronald Reagan was in office and he was fighting communism, ... There were some people out there criticizing him Reagan, saying 'This is crazy, he's a warmonger' and all of this kind of criticisms. And in the end, he proved right. He wore them down because he showed great leadership, and communism fell apart.
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
Communism has kind of been dead for a few years now. They are in the mind set of that's where their living, back in the Vietnam war I guess.
If this trend had continued for three more years, something similar to the fall of the Berlin Wall would have happened to China and the Communist party would have crumbled.
The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
I am a Marxist... of the Groucho tendency.
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny.... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they dont like a Communist.
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
What do you mean by the Communist Party As far as I know it is a legal party like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.
The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world.
Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.
Although these incidents have occurred in only a few rural villages, the Communist Party of China and the government have attached close importance to this issue and are looking for ways to tackle the problem.
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