H. L. Mencken Quotes

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

All socialists are either dumb or romantic.

What is a communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

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.

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

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

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

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.

Communism is nonsense.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

I am against the use of capitalist mechanisms to build socialism.

The identification of the intellectuals with the revolutionary movement is dependent … on their complete rift with bourgeois ideology and liberalism …. The relationship of the intellectuals as a group with the working class is essentially an alliance. But the alliance can be established only on the … unadulterated principles of Marxism-Leninism.

A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism.

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

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.