Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

[Communism] is the 20th century's most extraordinary political aberration.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.

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.

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.

Communism is nonsense.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

We only need one, in the same way that Lenin only needed one.

Communism is Twentieth Century Americanism

Communism in reality is not a political party. It is a way of life—an evil and malignant way of life.

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

Revolutionary party headed by Council of Workmen-Soldiers' Deputies supported by garrison have taken over government of Moscow including administration post, telegraph. They have closed offices of all conservative newspapers. All relatively quiet. Consulate General will keep the Department fully informed and will take all necessary steps to protect American citizens and their interests.

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas — and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists.

… the Communists, who take their inspiration if not their orders from Moscow, are now a recognized party or faction in every country, and in several constitute a danger to the existing order.