Mark Fisher Quotes

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

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

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

I consider the Birch Society futile, because they are not for capitalism but merely against communism ... I gather they believe that the disastrous state of today's world is caused by a communist conspiracy. This is childishly naive and superficial. No country can be destroyed by a mere conspiracy, it can be destroyed only by ideas.

We face a hostile ideology [Communism]—global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose, and insidious in method.

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

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

Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.

Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.

World War II proved our Soviet system to be a better form of organization of society than any non-Soviet social system.

Most of them are military commanders, country notables and landowners, and educated people. It is inconceivable that such a group should incline to the theory of Communism. But if Western countries persist in applying unjust pressure, they may well throw themselves into Russia’s arms.

The capitalists … were better than the communists and learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallenged theory of history.

The Bolsheviks called their system socialist so as to exploit the moral prestige of socialism. The West adopted the same usage for the opposite reason: to defame the feared libertarian ideals by associating them with the Bolshevik dungeon

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

There is no hope for any nation or group that allows itself to be drawn into the orbit of international communism.

The century that just ended was the bloodiest ever recorded. Enormous sacrifices were required of our youth to preserve our free way of life. But because they were willing to make those sacrifices, our survival as a nation and as a free people is no longer threatened. Democracy and private enterprise, though not without their faults, have prevailed over the collectivist ideologies that threatened us with destruction.