John Wayne Quotes

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

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

[Communism] is the 20th century's most extraordinary political aberration.

In the end a funeral requiem will be sung over the Soviet Republic or over world capitalism. As long as capitalism remains we cannot live in peace. In the end one or the other will triumph.

In time the Democratic party will fade away and we will have a capitalistic party and a socialistic party.

The starting-point in the brochure is not right. To my idea you are mistaken in your judgment regarding the analogy of the West-European revolution with the Russian one, regarding the conditions of the West-European revolution, that is to say the class-relations- and this leads you to mistake the cause, from which this Left Wing, the opposition, originates …. Therefore the brochure SEEMS to be right, as long as your starting-point is assumed. If, however (as it should be), your starting point is rejected, the entire brochure is wrong. As all your mistaken, and partly mistaken, judgments converge …

I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that

The USA is a better form of society than the USSR… To reject America as a capitalist country and to treat the Soviet Union as an example of socialist planning is to make nonsense of every one of our ideals.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Having emigrated to the United States as a small boy from the Soviet Union, I am instinctively suspicious of socialism and inveterately opposed to communism.

We are not communists.

Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and China had their bloody revolutions and even while they were Communist, they had the same idea about generating wealth - tear it out of the bowels of the earth. And now they have come out with the same idea in the end... you know, capitalism. But capitalism will fail, too.

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.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

I've never said I'm a communist.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

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.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

I always thought communism was crap, really.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist takeover of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this

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 difference between eastern Europe and the United States is that the United States still has a Communist party.

[Popular Front policy] implied a wholesale overthrow of the basic principles of communism. Instead of the class struggle, cooperation with the bourgeoisie. Instead of the Soviet system, eulogy of democracy. Instead of internationalism, nationalism.