#communism

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#call #christianity #churches #communism #communist

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#dead #dog #lion #living #many

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#building #clock #come #communism #concrete

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#communism #communist #doctrine #had #happen

The goal of socialism is communism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#goal #socialism

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communism #design #difficult #followed #out

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives. ↗

— Robert Novak

#goes #got #house #i #representatives

Communism is in conflict with human nature. ↗