Quotes about Stalinism

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It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, an — Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
Stalin’s Russia was a trap, in which even those running the system were caught. The leaders were trapped by fear of Stal — Jonathan Glover
If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its futu — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more b — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people — Slavoj Žižek
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside — Noam Chomsky
Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, bec — Norman Geras, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq
Having confronted the world with little except a battered typewriter and a certain resilience, he can now take posthumou — Christopher Hitchens
For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Trotsky's name from th — Isaac Deutscher
And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedi — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The — Mark Gevisser
Freedom meant one thing to him—home.But they wouldn't let him go home. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed. — Slavoj Žižek
The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a dev — Amadeo Bordiga
The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made o — Amadeo Bordiga, Murdering the Dead: Amadeo Bordiga on Capitalism and Other Disasters
The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met d — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The hide was being flayed off the still living body of the Revolution so that a new age could slip in to it; as for the — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.'No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism'. — Arthur Koestler
Stalin’s teachings about gradual, concealed, unnoticeable quantitative changes leading to rapid, radical, qualitative ch — Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A single idea keeps stirring — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich