{"quotes":[{"text":"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["anarchism","communism","labor","socialism","syndicalism","violence"],"id":343,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term 'red-baiter'] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic’s private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement.","author":"Eugene Lyons","tags":["communism","leftism","mccarthyism","soviet-union"],"id":1195,"author_id":"Eugene+Lyons"},{"text":"While the new Legionnaire man eliminated his enemies in the name of God, with a cross in his hand, the new Communist man eliminated God altogether and stood on His pedestal. They were both equally thirsty for blood.","author":"Teodor Flonta","tags":["communism","life","love","secret-police","securitate","transylvania","vampires","witches"],"id":1578,"author_id":"Teodor+Flonta"},{"text":"Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.” “Yes, it is. But it is politically correct.” (The Rise of Political Correctness).","author":"Angelo Codevilla","tags":["communism","evil","government","indoctrination","left","leftism","leftists","political-correctness","propaganda","socialism","soviets","statism"],"id":2581,"author_id":"Angelo+Codevilla"},{"text":"Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planning","collective","collectivism","communism","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","planned-economies","planned-societies","progressives","socialist-utopia","utopia","utopian","utopian-socialism","utopianism"],"id":2724,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"It was the economy that troubled most people prior to World War II. Europe, especially Germany, was dealing with a deep worldwide depression. Fascism was gaining a stronghold in Germany as well as in many other European countries. Although small and generally not popular, the Communist Party was the only organized group to stand in opposition to the Nazis. Small bands of these Communists occasionally attempted to disrupt the government by rioting in the streets. Occasionally gunfire would be heard, but very little could be done about it by a people that did not want to get involved. Hitler’s “Brown Shirts” were rapidly solidifying their position, and the Nazi Party was becoming stronger. Even though they frequently violated the National Constitution, they brought order to what had been chaos. The Treaty of Versailles, enacted after World War I, was hated by the German people, who felt that it suppressed them in a most demeaning way. Now however, Hitler was putting people to work building cars and an autobahn highway system that connected the larger cities. Modernization of airports and the development of a national railroad were all in violation of the imposed international regulations. Now however, workers were bringing paychecks home and could once again feed their families. Therefore, little thought was given to Hitler’s power grab. Germany was emerging from the dark era following World War I, and things were getting better. The Vaterland was regaining its strength, without regard to what France and other European countries thought.... After all, what could they, or would they, do about it?","author":"Captain Hank Bracker","tags":["communism","german-history","pre-wwii","seastories"],"id":7978,"author_id":"Captain+Hank+Bracker"},{"text":"In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maintaining that his approach to the peasantry was based on scientific Marxist class analysis, Lenin provided his successors with conceptualizations that would be used in collectivization when Stalin launched a war against all peasants.","author":"Lynne Viola","tags":["collectvization","communism","lenin","socialism","soviets","stalin","ussr"],"id":8053,"author_id":"Lynne+Viola"},{"text":"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.","author":"H. L. Mencken","tags":["communism","up","like "],"id":9644,"author_id":"H.+L.+Mencken"},{"text":"Look now,' Vesna's mother continued, 'what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats, Czechs would fight with Slovaks, Hungarians would fight with Jews. How can you be sure of anything?''But, Mother, if this happens, then it will such big trouble that nobody would think about a shortage of pantyhose,' protested Vesna.'You'd be surprised, my dear, to know that people have to live and survive during wars, too. Besides, how do you think we survived communism?","author":"Slavenka Drakulić","tags":["communism","drakulic","survival","survival-of-the-human-soul"],"id":9707,"author_id":"Slavenka+Drakuli%C4%87"},{"text":"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.","author":"Leon Trotsky","tags":["communism","democracy","freedom","history","hope","individualism","philosophy","politics","revolution","socialism"],"id":10925,"author_id":"Leon+Trotsky"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":555,"pages":56,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}