Tony Judt Quotes

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades.

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

I've never said I'm a communist.

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

I always thought communism was crap, really.

I do not believe that Communism will overwhelm the free world.

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

… that veiled sister of communism – legalistic socialism

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.