I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists – Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Castro couldn’t even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

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.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

I’m conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

I am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.