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The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

The best way to make Communists is to put the Americans into a place where there were no Communists before.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

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.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

The color of communism was not red but gray.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.

The goal of socialism is communism.

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

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

There are indications that today the intellectuals are coming back to [Albert] Camus. History has given them reason to, with the fall of communism.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

There is no doubt that America is now the prime target of international communism.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

The religion of that prophet [Karl Marx] who knew not the truth, is founded upon equality of the belly.

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

The way people get their living determines their social outlook.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

To apply communism is an aspiration, in fact it has never been applied anywhere, it is really still a utopia.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is.

Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.

You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

26. Above all other reality there exists one supreme Being: God, the omnipotent Creator of all things, the all-wise and just Judge of all men. This supreme reality, God, is the absolute condemnation of the impudent falsehoods of communism. In truth, it is not because men believe in God that He exists; rather because He exists do all men whose eyes are not deliberately closed to the truth believe in Him and pray to Him.