“We aim at something more sublime and more equitable—the common good, or the community of goods…. We demand, we would have, the communal enjoyment of the fruits of the earth, fruits which are for everyone.François Noël Babeuf
“The idea of restructuring [perestroika]… combines continuity and innovation, the historical experience of Bolshevism and the contemporaneity of socialism.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
“Capitalism, it is said, is a system wherein man exploits man. And communism—is vice versa.Daniel Bell
“I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five [people] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.Joseph R. McCarthy
“The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.Leon Trotsky