There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress to the nation; and the innocent ones, who get involved because they believe in equality and justice. The arrogant ones are obsessed with power; they presume to think for everyone; only bad can come of them. But the innocents? The only harm they do is to themselves. But that's all they ever wanted in the first place. They feel so guilty about the suffering of the poor, and are so keen to share it, that they make their lives miserable on purpose.
Orhan PamukMots clés guilt communism snow the-poor orhan-pamuk others-suffering
[Taken from a BBC documentary]
Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his communist parents.
Mots clés education atheism atheist communism catholic biography british india communist colonialism pakistan lahore
"This compound should be available from most good drugstores." I got increasingly annoyed with this phrase because in the world I lived in, even ordinary soap was available only intermittently............In an economy that operated by central planning, shortages of just about everything were commonplace." the author dexcribing life in Hungary in the 1950s under Communist Russian rule.
Andrew S. GroveMots clés communism
In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.
In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.
Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Mots clés uplifting revolution communism slavery bondage call-to-arms breaking-chains
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Friedrich EngelsMots clés liberty freedom communism development free-development
Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny.
Jack ProvonshaMots clés capitalism communism prophecy religioud-liberty
From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
John GrayMots clés philosophy suffering communism despotism utopia
Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property
John SteinbeckMots clés communism communists
The judicial methods used by the Communists in our day are the same as those of the Holy Inquisition. To secure the Reign of Terror, the Communists are as brutal as the Christian Church was during a long period of thirteen hundred years, for the same end. Christianity and Communism, - the Judaic Twins - in merciless brutality do not differ from each other. - The history book of the Holy Inquisition became the textbook of the Communist secret police.
Anton U. BrownMots clés christianity communism inquisition
Despre comunism:
„Tot ce am aflat după câteva mii de ani de istorie, este că cea mai bună dintre formele posibile ale conviețuirii noastre pe pământ este democrația societăților de tip occidental; că această formă a societății este plină, la rândul ei, de neajunsuri, că înlăuntrul ei este loc de mai bine, dar că în afara ei începe abitrarul, dictatura sau totalitarismul, că părăsind-o, omul și libertatea lui devin esențial amenințate. Societatea democratică de tip occidental nu s-a născut în urma unui experiment de o zi făcut pe corpul omenirii, ci reprezintă cristalizarea travaliului îndelungat al istoriei care a preluat de la fiecare generație contribuția ei la știința și tehnica organizării sociale. Gândul că un om (Lenin) sau o generație (a „revoluționarilor”) poate șterge dintr-un gest întreaga istorie a omenirii, declarând-o în numele imperfecțiunilor ei, „preistorie”, urmând ca după un alt gest să zămislească, oarecum din pământ, o nouă istorie, „cea adevărată”, poate desigur să se invească din teritoriul de umbră - de nebunie sau ignoranță - al minții noastre. Dar atunci omenirea toată va plăti această nebunie cu propria ei ființă”.
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