Madeleine Albright Quotes

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

[Communism] is the 20th century's most extraordinary political aberration.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

I'm not a communist, but I'm not anti-communist either. I'm not afraid of communists, and declare that if a country wants to be communist, it has the right to be so.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Communism is nonsense.

[Popular Front policy] implied a wholesale overthrow of the basic principles of communism. Instead of the class struggle, cooperation with the bourgeoisie. Instead of the Soviet system, eulogy of democracy. Instead of internationalism, nationalism.

There are now only a few countries following the socialist ways. We are one of these.

I am a Bolshevik.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

There will be no communism.

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

It is impossible to become a real communist without studying-really studying - all that Plekhanov has written on philosophy, as this is the best of the whole international literature of Marxism

The difference between the Socialists and the Communists is that … the Communists mean it.