Todor Zhivkov Quotes
Marxism does not make sense, and I am the first one to say this
Since the end of WWII till the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Bulgarians were part of the Soviet Bloc and operated under communism that was supposedly based on Marxism. However it was not in many critical respects. But few modern Russian style Communists are familiar with or understand Marxism.
Todor Zhivkov, 1911–1998, Premier of Bulgaria, http://www.puggina.org/detailterceiros.php?recordID=618
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The Pope was not affected by the “Red Scare” that so many other world leaders has been. Typically most people opposed to Marxism generally thought that those who were Marxists were evil. Pope Francis, candidly observed that many Marxist were good people and well-intended. In his view they were wrong, being naïve or misguided.
Unlike most of his televangelist successors, Sheen was very ecumenical. He was clearly Catholic but had a very significant Protestant and Jewish Audience.
Marx believed that the system of capitalism if it succeeded would be forced to globalize. To him, globalization was an inevitable consequence of capitalism itself and purely national industries would be destroyed.
This quotation is important because so many modern conservatives regard Keynes as a Marxist economist. Those who do, generally have not read neither the one or the other—possibly neither.
Todor Hristov Zhivkov was a Bulgarian communist statesman who served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1954 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the second longest-serving leader in the Eastern Bloc.
