It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis. – Whittaker Chambers
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself. – Serj Tankian
I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don’t want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports. – Thomas Piketty
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn’t. – Tim Scott
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism. – Tom Stoppard
Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that. – Tibor Fischer