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Like Lenin, Stalin understood the need for enemies, and it was in the logic of the Stalinist state that it was constantly mobilizing against its foes—external, but above all domestic.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tony Judt", "slug": "tony-judt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt" }, "book": { "title": "Postwar", "slug": "postwar", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt/postwar" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "power", "slug": "power", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power" }, { "name": "totalitarianism", "slug": "totalitarianism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/totalitarianism" }, { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tony_Judt#Postwar:_A_History_of_Europe_Since_1945_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:30" }, { "id": "62308f22-c686-4bab-90bf-2a4feeef319c", "slug": "communism-excited-intellectuals", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt/postwar/communism-excited-intellectuals", "text": "Communism excited intellectuals in a way that neither Hitler nor (especially) liberal democracy could hope to match. Communism was exotic in locale and heroic in scale.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tony Judt", "slug": "tony-judt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt" }, "book": { "title": "Postwar", "slug": "postwar", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tony-judt/postwar" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tony_Judt#Postwar:_A_History_of_Europe_Since_1945_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:30" }, { "id": "f98f725a-b965-4ce3-9d9c-7d9d131d0323", "slug": "as-a-homosexual", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-isherwood/christopher-and-his-kind/as-a-homosexual", "text": "As a homosexual, he had been wavering between embarrassment and defiance. He became embarrassed when he felt that he was making a selfish demand for his individual rights at a time when only group action mattered. He became defiant when he made the treatment of the homosexual a test by which every political party and government must be judged. His challenge to each one of them was: \"All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?\" The Soviet Union had passed this test with honors when it recognized the private sexual rights of the individual, in 1917. But, in 1934, Stalin's government had withdrawn this recognition and made all homosexual acts punishable by heavy prison sentences. It had agreed with the Nazis in denouncing homosexuality as a form of treason to the state. The only difference was that the Nazis called it \"sexual Bolshevism\" and the Communists \"Fascist perversion.\" Christopher — like many of his friends, homosexual and heterosexual — had done his best to minimize the Soviet betrayal of its own principles. After all, he had said to himself, anti-homosexual laws exist in most capitalist countries, including England and the United States. Yes — but if Communists claim that their system is juster than capitalism, doesn't that make their injustice to homosexuals less excusable and their hypocrisy even viler? He now realized that he must dissociate himself from the Communists, even as a fellow traveler. He might, in certain situations, accept them as allies but he could never regard them as comrades. He must never again give way to embarrassment, never deny the rights of his tribe, never apologize for its existence, never think of sacrificing himself masochistically on the altar of that false god of the totalitarians, the Greatest Good of the Greatest Number — whose priests are alone empowered to decide what \"good\" is.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Christopher Isherwood", "slug": "christopher-isherwood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-isherwood" }, "book": { "title": "Christopher and His Kind", "slug": "christopher-and-his-kind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-isherwood/christopher-and-his-kind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 334, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "hypocrisy", "slug": "hypocrisy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hypocrisy" }, { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" }, { "name": "homosexuality", "slug": "homosexuality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/homosexuality" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Christopher_Isherwood#Christopher_and_His_Kind_(1976)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:28" }, { "id": "fa0c55a4-ad5d-412d-bea6-d9e9168b24d7", "slug": "communists-are-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter/communists-are-the", "text": "Communists are the last optimists.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nadine Gordimer", "slug": "nadine-gordimer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer" }, "book": { "title": "Burger's Daughter", "slug": "burgers-daughter", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nadine-gordimer/burgers-daughter" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 42, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "optimism", "slug": "optimism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/optimism" }, { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer#Burger's_Daughter_(1979)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:10" }, { "id": "015fbc76-6736-42ce-9f6d-ebf898d4bb0d", "slug": "marxism-is-a-flight", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia/sexual-personae/marxism-is-a-flight", "text": "Marxism is a flight from the magic of the person and the mystique of hierarchy. It distorts the character of western culture, which is based on the charismatic power of person. Marxism can work only in pre-industrial societies of homogeneous populations. Raise the standard of living, and the rainbow riot of individualism will break out. Personality and art, which Marxism fears and censors, rebound from every effort to oppress them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Camille Paglia", "slug": "camille-paglia", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia" }, "book": { "title": "Sexual Personae", "slug": "sexual-personae", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/camille-paglia/sexual-personae" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 36, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "individualism", "slug": "individualism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/individualism" }, { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia#Sexual_Personae:_Art_and_Decadence_from_Nefertiti_to_Emily_Dickinson_(1990)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:17" }, { "id": "2a8a22a0-413c-4fa2-834a-c5232f30ef6f", "slug": "ireland-would-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-clancy/rainbow-six/ireland-would-not", "text": "Ireland would not turn into a Marxist country, for all their wishes. The list of such nations was very thin now, though across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of Marx and Engels and even Lenin. Fools. There were even those who said that Communism had been tried in the wrong country—that Russia had been too far backward to make those wonderful ideas work. That was enough to bring an ironic smile and a shake of the head. He'd once been a part of the organization called the Sword and Shield of the Party. He'd been through the Academy, had sat through all the political classes, learned the answers to the inevitable examination questions and been clever enough to write down exactly what his instructors wanted to hear, thus ensuring high marks and the respect of his mentors—few of whom had believed in that drivel any more than he had, but none of whom had found within themselves the courage to speak their real thoughts. It was amazing how long the lies had lasted, and truly, Popov could remember his surprise when the red flag had been pulled down from its pole atop the Kremlin's Spasskaya Gate. 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According to Marx, the social condition \"capitalism\" does not consist in the existence of individual capitalists, but in the existence of the specific \"capitalist mode of production\", that is, in the production of exchange values instead of use values, in wage work of the masses and in the production of surplus value, which is appropriated by the state or the private owners, and not by the society of working people. In this strictly Marxist sense, the capitalistic system continues to exist in Russia. And it will continue to exist as long as the masses of people continue to lack responsibility and to crave authority.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Wilhelm Reich", "slug": "wilhelm-reich", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilhelm-reich" }, "book": { "title": "The Mass Psychology of Fascism", "slug": "the-mass-psychology-of-fascism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/wilhelm-reich/the-mass-psychology-of-fascism" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "capitalism", "slug": "capitalism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/capitalism" }, { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" }, { "name": "Russia", "slug": "russia", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/russia" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich#The_Mass_Psychology_of_Fascism_(1933)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:34" }, { "id": "f8c66e53-ac6f-4f88-8a06-413768b6ce44", "slug": "communism-is-like", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/garry-kasparov/winter-is-coming/communism-is-like", "text": "Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Garry Kasparov", "slug": "garry-kasparov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/garry-kasparov" }, "book": { "title": "Winter Is Coming", "slug": "winter-is-coming", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/garry-kasparov/winter-is-coming" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 33, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Garry_Kasparov#Winter_is_Coming_(2015)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:24" }, { "id": "f207a2e5-71d1-42c3-8bfd-841335162f1c", "slug": "marx-profoundly-affected", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kenneth-galbraith/the-affluent-society/marx-profoundly-affected", "text": "Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Kenneth Galbraith", "slug": "john-kenneth-galbraith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kenneth-galbraith" }, "book": { "title": "The Affluent Society", "slug": "the-affluent-society", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-kenneth-galbraith/the-affluent-society" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith#The_Affluent_Society_(1958)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:55" }, { "id": "447eadb1-0366-423d-9711-841b4cc0fda7", "slug": "communism-in-material", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/upton-sinclair/the-jungle/communism-in-material", "text": "“Communism in material production, anarchism in intellectual,” was the formula of modern proletarian thought.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Upton Sinclair", "slug": "upton-sinclair", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/upton-sinclair" }, "book": { "title": "The Jungle", "slug": "the-jungle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/upton-sinclair/the-jungle" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" }, { "name": "anarchism", "slug": "anarchism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anarchism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Jungle_(novel)#Chapter_31", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:43:44" }, { "id": "351d3b72-1315-4b10-a405-b7ed08431637", "slug": "a-lot-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/breakfast-of-champions/a-lot-of-the", "text": "A lot of the people on the wrecked planet were Communists. They had a theory that what was left of the planet should be shared more or less equally among all the people, who hadn't asked to come to a wrecked planet in the first place. Meanwhile, more babies were arriving all the time—kicking and screaming, yelling for milk. In some places people would actually try to eat mud or such on gravel while babies were being born just a few feet away. And so on. Dwayne Hoover's and Kilgore Trout's country, where there was still plenty of everything, was opposed to Communism. It didn't think that Earthlings who had a lot should share it with others unless they really wanted to, and most of them didn't want to. So they didn't have to.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "Breakfast of Champions", "slug": "breakfast-of-champions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/breakfast-of-champions" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "America", "slug": "america", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/america" }, { "name": "poverty", "slug": "poverty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poverty" }, { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Breakfast_of_Champions_(1973)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:40" }, { "id": "324c9c13-657f-4fc6-a3e4-dcc149fafb83", "slug": "absolutely-everything-beloved", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain/absolutely-everything-beloved", "text": "Absolutely everything beloved and cherished of the bourgeoisie, the conservative, the cowardly, and the impotent — the State, family life, secular art and science — was consciously or unconsciously hostile to the religious idea, to the Church, whose innate tendency and permanent aim was the dissolution of all existing worldly orders, and the reconstitution of society after the model of the ideal, the communistic City of God.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Thomas Mann", "slug": "thomas-mann", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann" }, "book": { "title": "The Magic Mountain", "slug": "the-magic-mountain", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-mann/the-magic-mountain" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "religion", "slug": "religion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion" }, { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann#The_Magic_Mountain_(1924)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:17" }, { "id": "120e87b4-d2dd-4a94-b290-f41744eaffca", "slug": "we-are-now", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/friedrich-engels/the-origin-of-the-family-private-property-and-the-state/we-are-now", "text": "We are now approaching a , in which the old economic foundations of monogamy will disappear just as surely as those of its complement, prostitution. Monogamy arose through the concentration of considerable wealth in one hand — a man's hand — and from the endeavor to bequeath this wealth to the children of this man to the exclusion of all others. This necessitated monogamy on the woman's, but not on the man's part. Hence this monogamy of women in no way hindered open or secret polygamy of men. Now, the impending social revolution will reduce this whole care of inheritance to a minimum by changing at least the overwhelming part of permanent and inheritable wealth—the means of production—into social property. Since monogamy was caused by economic conditions, will it disappear when these causes are abolished? One might reply, not without reason: not only will it not disappear, but it will rather be perfectly realized. For with the transformation of the means of production into collective property, wagelabor will also disappear, and with it the proletariat and the necessity for a certain, statistically ascertainable number of women to surrender for money. Prostitution disappears and monogamy, instead of going out of existence, at last becomes a reality—for men also. At all events, the situation will be very much changed for men. But also that of women, and of all women, will be considerably altered. With the transformation of the means of production into collective property the monogamous family ceases to be the of society. The private household changes to a social industry. The care and education of children become? a public matter. Society cares equally well for all children, legal or illegal. This removes the care about the \"consequences\" which now forms the essential social factor—moral and economic—hindering a girl to surrender unconditionally to the beloved man. Will not this be sufficient cause for a gradual rise of a more unconventional intercourse of the sexes and a more lenient public opinion regarding virgin honor and female shame? And finally, did we not see that in the modern world monogamy and prostitution, though antitheses, are inseparable and poles of the same social condition? 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He showed that in fact it existed, and had always existed in some form or other. His object in writing Capital was 'to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society', and thus uncovering these fierce conflicts between different classes in society. These conflicts are not always obvious as class struggles, because the dominant class always tries to hide its own class character. But when the existing order is threatened, then it throws away all pretence and its real character appears, and there is open warfare between the classes. Forms of democracy and ordinary laws and procedures all disappear when this happens. Instead of these class struggles being due to misunderstanding or the villainy of agitators, as some people say, they are inherent in society, and they actually increase with better understanding of the conflict of interests.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jawaharlal Nehru", "slug": "jawaharlal-nehru", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jawaharlal-nehru" }, "book": { "title": "Glimpses Of World History", "slug": "glimpses-of-world-history", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jawaharlal-nehru/glimpses-of-world-history" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "social inequality", "slug": "social-inequality", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/social-inequality" }, { "name": "communism", "slug": "communism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/communism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru#Glimpses_of_World_History_(1934-1949)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:23" } ] }