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You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.'No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into ...

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For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the cor...

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Ivanov- "Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in go...

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...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Pre...

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It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half...

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Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

I don't approve of mixing ideologies," Ivanov continued. "There are only two conceptions of human et...

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Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

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When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know y...

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Socialism may be established by force, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—or by vote, as ...

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When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

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Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from...

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There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

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People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

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Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what an...

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State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state mono...

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Those who are weak don't fight.Those who are stronger might fightfor an hour.Those who are stronger ...

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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a cleve...

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Bertrand RussellNew Hopes for a Changing World

In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstance...

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Bertrand RussellProposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism

This was 1990 the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the wor...

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Bill BrysonNeither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if ...

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The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot b...

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Or again, take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a f...

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Those who reject Christianity will not be moved by Christ’s statement that poverty is blessed. But h...

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My last penny! I think I'll squander it on myself. I never feel badly about spending money my dad ha...

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The Koran is empathetic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs. It unequi...

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You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity...

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I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist ...

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Christopher HitchensChristopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

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Christopher HitchensFor the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in...

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Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...

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I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since...

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I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony...

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Sceptical Ketman is widely disseminated throughout intellectual circles. One argues that humanity do...

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Professional Ketman is reasoned thus: since I find myself in circumstances over which I have no cont...

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If the world is divided between Fascism and Communism, obviously Fascism must lose since it is the l...

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Visible alternatives shatter the sense of inevitability, that the system must, necessarily, be patch...

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David GraeberRevolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

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Your leaders must know powerful magic. Yes, said one of the women. The magic is called Marx, Stalin,...

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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

Given the amount the human suffering Communists have caused, why is Communist so much less a term of...

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Dennis PragerStill the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is...

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No, there's a group of hardened, fossilised men opposed by fresh young revolutionaries as John Butte...

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People are too emotional about communism, or rather, about their own Communist Parties, to think abo...

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Doris LessingThe Golden Notebook

Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this ...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being...

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If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to ...

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Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

How would that premise stand up if he examined it? That was probably why the Communists were always ...

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You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be...

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Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life ...

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The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for ...

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The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they ha...

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Communism...muat of necessity be a saddening process for anyone who has ever tasted the intellectual...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldDear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence

There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why...

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If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social v...

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He claimed to be a Marxist, the only one of his claims I believed. He had that Marxist passion for o...

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Francine ProseLovers at the Chameleon Club

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social...

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Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the...

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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the pr...

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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

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Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species.

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Fulton J. SheenLife Is Worth Living

The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for ...

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The Government finally decidedTo wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the a...

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In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of unders...

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He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the im...

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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiati...

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The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

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

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christian...

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The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In...

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The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satis...

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Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is esp...

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A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that te...

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Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among...

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but peo...

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In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

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There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The s...

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Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was una...

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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, an...

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They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it the...

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The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve...

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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--...

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John RuskinThe Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the s...

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…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Re...

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Jonah GoldbergLiberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning