William Blum Quotes

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

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

Communism is nonsense.

I can't understand Karl Marx, so how can I be a Communist?

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

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

In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

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

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

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

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

There will be no communism.

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

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution