John Blair Quotes

I am not a communist. I do not agree with communism.

There is a buffet of ideologies for me to choose from. I've been a fan of certain communist and socialist ideals. Some have failed, some have succeeded. I've lived long enough to understand where all they failed.

Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the addition of 'the Fatherland.'

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

Moderates behind whom Red Fascism spreads.

We are at the crossroads. One road leads toward fascism, the other towards Communism. I take the road to fascism.

The most radical, one might even say Socialistic leader the United States ever produced.

The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

We don't have an appreciable American left any more in the United States. What I saw of the SDS in the '60s was very abhorrent to me: Marxism, Leninism, almost the KGB mentality - a police politics that I found completely totalitarian in nature.

I would say that today the real support for State power and totalitarianism comes from the Communist parties and the Socialist parties and, where they are sizable, the Trotskyist groups. They are the ones that really frighten me.

No matter what Donald Trump says, he has deep socialist leanings. He's a nationalist and a populist. And throughout history, whenever you combine those three things it never ends well.

The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

Should the progressives in Germany in the 30s have tolerated the National Socialists? Of course they shouldn't have.

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

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

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.