Charlie Chaplin Quotes

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.

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

Marxism is what has seduced American liberals - well, liberals worldwide, communists, all leftists.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

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.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

I've never said I'm a communist.

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels.

Communism is nonsense.

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

The difference between the Socialists and the Communists is that … the Communists mean it.

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

[Referring to Karl Marx:] ... the prince of muddleheads.

Karl Marx is not a very popular figure any more but once in a while he said something very sensible.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

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?

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