Mikhail Gorbachev Quotes

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

What is a communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

I remember coming home when I was 14 and being like, 'Yeah, I'm a communist now!'

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

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.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Communism is nonsense.

Every year humanity takes a step towards Communism. Maybe not you, but … your grandson will surely be a Communist.

A communist is a man who has nothing and wishes to share it with the world.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.