“We must not allow the Communists to get control of the machinery of government.”— William Randolph Hearst, amazon.com
“It is not only fashionable to be sympathetic to Communism, but profitable too.”— William Randolph Hearst, amazon.com
“The extent of this discontent was clearly indicated by the six million votes cast for the German Communist Party at the last Reichstag elections, before the fascists came to power. The German bourgeoisie perceived that the bourgeois-democratic liberties preserved in Germany might play them an evil t…”— Joseph Stalin, marx2mao.com
“Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when, in analyzing the experience of the Commune, he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org
“Once we have overthrown the capitalists, crushed the resistance of these exploiters with the iron hand of the armed workers, and smashed the bureaucratic machinery of the modern state, we shall have a splendidly-equipped mechanism, freed from the ‘parasite’, a mechanism which can very well be set go…”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org
“The petty-bourgeois democrats, such as our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, and also their twin brothers, all the social-chauvinists and opportunists of Western Europe, expect just this ‘more’ from universal suffrage. They themselves share, and instil into the minds of the people, the false…”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org
“They were happy to admire communism from a distance, but very few chose to live under communism.”— David P. Goldman, amazon.com