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Category: Communism Oil Companies Watch Out!“We’ll take on the oil companies and harness their record profits to create millions of clean energy jobs — high-wage jobs you can raise a family on. I’ll end their special tax breaks and give them a choice: invest some of your profits in alternative energy , or we’ll do it for you.” - Hillary Clinton
Americans support Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.“No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we’re here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people, millions support your revolution, support your ideas, and we are expressing our solidarity with you.” - Harry Belafonte , January 8, 2006.
Friendship can defeat communism.“I believe that communism would have been gone from there [Cuba] if we’d just been friends with them.” - Ted Turner
Communism’s restraint of U.S. power was beneficial.“One of the great achievements of Communism, rarely recognized in the West, is its relatively successful containment of American power from the early 1950s through the demise of the Soviet state in 1991.” - Peter Kirstein , Probably November 2002.
Advocating Marxism.“I think Marxist theory and political practice are more relevant now than ever, given the global dominance of the capitalist mode of production and American imperialism.” - James Holstun
We need more Marxists.“What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists — all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few ‘conservatives’.” - Grover Furr
Stalin was a great leader.“I used to think of Joseph Stalin as a tyrant and butcher who jailed and killed millions. . . . But, to about a billion people today, Stalin is the opposite of what we in the capitalist world have been programmed to believe. . . . From a Communist point of view, Stalin was certainly one of the greatest of revolutionary leaders. . . .” - Bruce Franklin , 1972.
Supporting Fidel Castro’s wishes.“Yup, I gotta confess, that now-famous picture of a U.S. marshal in Miami pointing an automatic weapon toward Donato Dalrymple and ordering him in the name of the U.S. government to turn over Elian Gonzalez warmed my heart.” - Thomas Friedman , April 2000.
Praise for the Soviets.“In repentance lies our hope. . . . Were we Americans to repent of the self-righteousness . . . we would realize that if we are not yet one with the Soviets in love, at least we are one with them in sin. . . . Were we to repent of our selfrighteousness, the existence of Soviet missiles would remind us of nothing so much as our own. Soviet threats to rebellious Poles would call to mind American threats to the Sandinistas. Afghanistan would suggest Vietnam. Soviet repression of civil liberties at home would remind us of our own complicity in the repression of these same civil rights abroad. . . . Jesus would never be ’soft on communism’ anymore than He would be soft on capitalism.” - William Sloane Coffin , 1985.
Praise for Che Guevara.“He was the first man I had ever met whom I thought not just handsome but beautiful. With his curly, reddish beard, he looked like a cross between a faun and a Sunday school print of Jesus. . . . In Che, one felt a desire to heal and pity for suffering. . . . It was out of love, like the perfect knight of medieval romance, that he had set out to combat with the powers of the world. . . . In a sense he was, like some early saint, taking refuge in the desert. Only there could the purity of the faith be safeguarded.” - I.F. Stone
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