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| Communism The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, 1848. The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all the other proletarian [workers] parties: formation of the proletariat [workers] into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois [owning class] supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat [workers]. Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, 1848. You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to it's non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, 1848. 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 [workers] have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, 1848. Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich - that is the democracy of capitalist society. Lenin, Russian Communist Party leader Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Our principle is that the Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party." Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party leader, Problems of War and Strategy, 1938 |
Against Communism [Communism] lacks arguments and hence there is the club, the concentration camp, the insane asylum . . . Communism has never concealed the fact that it rejects all absolute concepts of morality. It scoffs at any consideration of "good" and "evil" as indisputable categories. Communism is anti-humanity. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer, Nobel Prize winner. In the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of a most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity [courtesy] and peace. Freedom is the victor. Ronald Reagan, Speech at the Berlin Wall, 1987 |
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