What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto! — Stephen Colbert
This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered. — Kenneth Goff
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. — John Kenneth Galbraith
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party. — Mao Zedong
Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918. — Henry Hamilton Beamish
Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains. — Karl Marx
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. — Adlai Stevenson
The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism. — David Harvey
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. — Frank Zappa
Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it. — Gilles Dauve
Short Communist Manifesto Quotes
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. — Will Rogers
There's a communist living in the White House! — Victoria Jackson
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. — Clement Attlee
Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work. — Will Rogers
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. — Mao Zedong
World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue — George F. Kennan
I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life. — Woody Guthrie
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. — Karl Marx
As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control. — Vladimir Lenin
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. — Karl Marx
Communist Party Quotes
While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205. — Joseph McCarthy
The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. — Joseph McCarthy
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping
Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party. — Xi Jinping
I believe there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. — Allen West
This country is its people. The people are the country, as the Communist Party of China has led the people in fighting to establish and develop the People's Republic. — Xi Jinping
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. — Xi Jinping
A hallmark that distinguishes the Communist Party of China from other political parties is its courage in undertaking self-reform. — Xi Jinping
My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party. — David Horowitz
The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China. — Jiang Zemin
Communism Quotes
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. — Ayn Rand
One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism. — Francisco Franco
We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us. — Vladimir Lenin
Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down. — Joseph McCarthy
The whole secret of the campaigns unleashed against Spain can be explained in two words: Masonry and Communism... we have to extirpate these two evils from our land. — Francisco Franco
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — John Steinbeck
What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God. — Malcolm Muggeridge
Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism. — Jomo Kenyatta
Capitalism And Communism Quotes
It is only the ending of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism and neocolonialism and the attainment of world communism that can provide the conditions under which the RACE question can finally be abolished and eliminated. — Kwame Nkrumah
To understand markets, you must first understand people; and to understand people, you must first understand history. — Russell Napier
Monetary policy is about the redistribution of wealth and income from the masses to the classes. — Russell Napier
We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities. — Alain Badiou
The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent. — John F. Kennedy
Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other. — Frank Capra
Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future. — Roger Ailes
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation. — Bertrand Russell
But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism. — Vladimir Lenin
Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box. — Gus Hall
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". Thomas Sowell . — Thomas Sowell
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. — Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash. — Eduard Bernstein
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents! — George Habash
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other. — Karl Marx
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. — Karl Marx
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx
Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks. — Adlai Stevenson I
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. — Max Weber
...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. — Karl Marx
In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. — Karl Marx
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. — Karl Marx
The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win. — Karl Marx
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. — Karl Marx
In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. — Karl Marx
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. — Karl Marx
Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production — Karl Marx
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. — Friedrich Engels
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. — Karl Marx
In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. ... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS. — James Traficant
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. — Karl Marx
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. — Karl Marx
When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is. — Samuel P. Huntington
Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history. — Allen W. Wood
Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we have to realize that they more and more have approached the goal set by Marx. Estate taxes of the height they have already attained for the upper brackets are no longer to be qualified as taxes. They are measures of expropriation. — Ludwig von Mises
Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history. — Grace Lee Boggs
The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes. — Christopher Hitchens
Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. — Karl Marx
I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him. — T. Coleman Andrews
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