Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.
Socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism today., the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from earth but to set up Heaven on Earth
The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way. Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity.
There is something satanic about the French Revolution that distinguishes it from everything we have known, and perhaps from everything we will ever witness.
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
What we were striving for was a kind of modified form of communism.
I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.
I was born in 1988, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and people of my generation were taught that utopian dreams are dangerous.
You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.
Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
… utopian social engineering
Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate.
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
… utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.
The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
What's wrong with wanting the best for everybody?
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!
