Dorothy Day Quotes

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

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

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

Militant Communism remains dedicated to the destruction of our society.

Communism has had its success in this century as a reaction against a certain type of unbridaled capitalism.

The Russian Communist Party is not just any party. History decreed that the R.C.P was to become a mighty instrument of human progress and a major instrument of the world revolution. Its importance is great and immeasurable in the history not only of Russia but also in that of the whole world

Communism … is not a stale state …. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.

Friedrich Engels’ first draft of the Communist Manifesto included a deliberate undermining of family bonds as part of the Marxian political agenda, though Marx himself was politically astute enough to leave that out of the final version.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

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

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

Communism will win.

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

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

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