Communism is not a political party, it is a disease. J Edgar 2011 starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Judi Dench & Armie Hammer & Naomi Watts & Josh Lucas & Ed Westwick & Dermot Mulroney & Damon Herriman & Jeffrey Donovan & Ed Westwick & Zach Grenier et al, director Clint Eastwood, Hoover’s commentary
Agents of the Bureau alongside local police began raiding gathering places of known communist radicals all across this country. ibid.
The menace of communism in this country will remain a menace until the American people make themselves aware of the techniques of communism. No one who truly understands what it really is can he taken in by it. Yet the individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent. J Edgar Hoover, The Elks magazine August 1956
Communism in reality is not a political party. It is a way of life. An evil and malignant way of life. It reveals a condition akin to disease that spreads like an epidemic, and like an epidemic a quarantine is necessary to keep it from infecting the American people. J Edgar Hoover
The Communist Party of the United States is a fifth column if there ever was one. It is far better organised than were the Nazis in occupied countries prior to their capitulation. They are seeking to weaken America just as they did in their era of obstruction when they were aligned with the Nazis. Their goal is the overthrow of the government. J Edgar Hoover
Since its inception the Communist Party USA has been alert on every possible issue or event which could be used to exploit the American Negro in furtherance of party aims. J Edgar Hoover, testimony before House Committee 1962
Bolshevism is knocking at our gates, we can’t afford to let it in ... We must keep America whole and safe and unspoiled. We must keep the worker away from red literature and red ruses; we must see that his mind remains healthy. Al Capone
Communism is not a set of measures to be put into practice after the seizure of power. It is a movement which already exists, not as a mode of production (there can be no communist island within capitalist society), but as a tendency which originates in real needs. Communism does not even know what value is. The point is not that one fine day a large number of people start to destroy value and profit. All past revolutionary movements were able to bring society to a standstill, and waited for something to come out of this universal stoppage. Communization, on the contrary, will circulate goods without money, open the gate isolating a factory from its neighbourhood, close down another factory where the work process is too alienating to be technically improved, do away with school as a specialized place which cuts off learning from doing for fifteen odd years, pull down walls that force people to imprison themselves in three-room family units – in short, it will tend to break all separations. Communism believes in equality through force. Gilles Dauve
First I’d to say that communism is based on an ethical relativism, a metaphysical materialism, a denial of human freedom and a crippling totalitarianism that I could never accept. Martin Luther King
I would hope that the FBI would come out and say something that I think is much more significant. And that is it is amazing that so few Negroes have turned to communism in the light of their desperate plight. I think it is one of the most amazing developments of the twentieth-century how loyal the Negro has remained to America despite his long night of oppression and discrimination. Martin Luther King
I was brought up in a milieu where I was taught that communism leads to dictatorship and that capitalism leads to democracy. But it’s not that simple. Oliver Stone
Communism is the modern form of the Jewish collective state. Eustace Mullins, New History of the Jews
I’m a realistic anti-communist and I think I had some experience with communists in our own industry when they attempted to take it over some years ago. Ronald Reagan, interview 1966
The enemy is there and we are the target of that enemy. And I think we have to do what is necessary to oppose their aggression. ibid.
I never agree with communists or any other kind of kept men. H L Mencken
They [American government] seemed to have had a preconceived programme of what the communists were up to. Erhard Dabringhaus, former counter-intelligence officer
That infamous doctrine of so-called communism is absolutely contrary to the natural law itself. And if once adopted would utterly destroy the rights, property and possessions of all men and even society itself. Pope Pius IX, November 1846
Communism has behind it occult forces for which a long time have been working for the overthrow of the Christian social order. Pope Pius XI, 1937
It would be simplistic to say that Divine Providence caused the fall of communism. It fell by itself as a consequence of its own mistakes and abuses. It fell by itself as a consequence of its own mistakes and abuses. It fell by itself because of its own inherent weaknesses. Pope John Paul II
Communism and Zionism are Rothschild proxies; two pincers in the bankers’ plan for world government dictatorship, currently masquerading as globalism. Dr Henry Makow, Illuminati – The Cult that Hijacked the World
If we could get our government to stop helping the communists everywhere in the world while pretending to do the opposite for just six months the whole communist worldwide empire would fall to pieces. Robert Welch, founder John Birch Society
The collapse of communism: maybe it really was blue jeans and rock and roll. Niall Ferguson, Civilisation: Is the West History? Consumerism, Channel 4 2011
Beloved Revolutionary martyrs, may you rest in peace. We love the Chinese Communist Party. The young pioneers will remember you. Let our brilliant red scarves serve as our pledge. We love the Chinese Communist Party. [crowd chant] We love the Socialist motherland! We will carry on the cause of Communism! Communist Party Remembrance Service 1993 for soldiers who killed student protesters 1989
The illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. Clement Attlee, re Russian communism
Communism is Soviet Power plus the electrification of the whole country. Vladimir Lenin
It must be recognised that the power these energetic left-wingers exercised was never their own power or communist power, but was ultimately the power of the international financial coterie. Professor Carroll Quigley
The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn’t sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. Richard M Nixon
Well I have studied Marxist philosophy, yes sir, and also other philosophers. Well I would definitely say that I am a Marxist, correct, but that doesn’t mean that I’m a communist. There’s a great deal of difference. Lee Harvey Oswald, interview New Orleans television
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx
When Engels and I first joined the secret Communist Society we made it a condition that everything tending to encourage superstitious belief in authority was to be removed from the statutes. Karl Marx
Communism ... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution. Karl Marx, Private Property and Communism p43
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence. Karl Marx, The German Ideology, 1845
For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or a critical critic and must remain so if he does not wish to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, to fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have in mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. Karl Marx