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- Nov 07, 2020
Communism Quotes
Views on an ideology that shaped a century of politics.
This set brings together statements on communism as both a political system and a lived-through era, including one classic definition tying it to state power plus electrification. Others weigh how it relates to Government and centralized economic planning.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Featured
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- Nov 07, 2020
So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.
- American Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
For good or ill, communism transformed the globe, but how many of us realise the crucial role played by a Manchester public library - Chethams, the oldest library in the English-speaking world - in the honing of that ideology?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real issue behind these people who are gun grabbers, the truth is - based on fact - the reason why is, they want control. They want control of the people. That's what socialism is and communism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All fraudulent elections should be condemned, including those in Turkey and Russia. And we need to be doubly mindful not to indulge amateur socialists in this country, because even though a Bernie Sanders presidency is a joke, the consequences of diet communism are deadly serious.
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- Nov 07, 2020