Hunger justifies the middle classes.

Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!”-after the split between Anarchists and Marxists in 1872

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

I hate vodka. It is the second worst thing to have come out of Russia, after communism – which isn’t Russian anyway, Karl Marx was Russian.

Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It’s that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.”[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek,...

It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would...

It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a...

Dictatorul e de meserie cizmar, diploma scoalara si-a cumparat-o. Nu stie nici sa scrie nici sa citeasca, spune mama, e mai prost ca noaptea.Dar noaptea nu ucide, spune tata.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Death appears as the harsh victory of the law of our ancestors of the dimension of our becoming. It is a fact that, as productivity increases, each succeeding generation becomes smaller in stature. The defeat...

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

An inch of gold can’t buy an inch of time

According to old frineds who grew up with Stanley Ann Dunham, she became a serious student of Communist and Marxist theories back in high school. One profile even named a few of her radical teachers...

Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

karmic reassignment”) manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: ‘In different times,...

The capitalist empires, with their affirmations of sacrifice for the free world, of defence of private enterprise, of safeguarding order from subversion and chaos, are in fact defending their political prestige and the economic interests...

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and...

Die Proletarier dieser Welt haben nichts zu verlieren als ihre Ketten. Sie haben eine Welt zu gewinnen. Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!

Prosperity and democracy does seem to be a good way to wean a population off massive alcohol abuse.

For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash and advocated human relations based entirely on class allegiance. But my personal experience had shown me that most of the Chinese...

Lenin and Stalin created the idiosyncratic Soviet system in the image of their ruthless little circle of conspirators before the Revolution. Indeed much of the tragedy of Leninism-Stalinism is comprehensible only if one realizes that...

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats…

It seems to me that the Russian prestige is declining and that America holds in its hands the immediate future of the world: as long as America knows how to develop the sense of the...

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism’s crimes. When they no...

In his book The Captive Mind, written in 1951-2 and published in the West in 1953, the Polish poet and essayist Czeslaw Milosz paid Orwell one of the greatest compliments that one writer has ever...

Communism, like the mullet, will never go out of style.

Time is the ultimate form of socialism. Each receives the same amount equally, yet how we manage our time is reflected by our lives. We all can agree, no one comes out equal. For a...