#communism

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal. ↗

— Friedrick Engels

#democracy #engelism #free-thinker #free-thought #freedom

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion. ↗

— David Miliband

#communism #meant #meant to be #religion

Thinking globally does not mean thinking socially. ↗

— Ilkin Santak

#communism #equal-rights #global-thinking #human-rights #liberalism

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really. ↗

— Petra Nemcova

#could #dreaming #fell #few #freedom

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#communism #condemned #fascism #i #i always

When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that. ↗

— Pol Pot

#cambodia #communism #die #i #only

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#common #communism #concord #danger #excellence

...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced. ↗

— Michael Burawoy

#collective #communism #existence #marxism #neo-marxism

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#death