Howard Fast Quotes

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

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

I do not believe that Communism will overwhelm the free world.

Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.

Chamberlain and Halifax were more afraid of the spread of Communism than they were of Hitler or Mussolini.

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

The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades.

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Having emigrated to the United States as a small boy from the Soviet Union, I am instinctively suspicious of socialism and inveterately opposed to communism.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world's problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.