Rick Perlstein Quotes

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

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

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

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Communism is nonsense.

The calls for socialism on the left get louder and louder, and they don't stop.

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

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Communism will win.

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

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

There will be no communism.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

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.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

I don't really view communism as a bad thing.

Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.

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