Communism

Scientific Experiment
Communism

Scientific Experiment?

“It was juvenile of me to imagine that humanity as a whole, especially by splitting itself into two halves, could turn a whole period of history into a scientific experiment.” ~Max Eastman

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Phony Elections
Communism

Phony Elections

“The phony elections in totalitarian countries, the ballots with only one party and one list of candidates, are not the mere tricks of a cynical dictator—they are intrinsic to a state-planned economy.” ~Max Eastman

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Superscientific
Communism

Superscientific

Marxism “is superscientific, metaphysical–religious in the truest sense of the term. It is a scheme for reading the ideal purpose of the communists…” ~Max Eastman

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Resistance to Tyranny
Communism

Resistance to Tyranny

“Almost everyone who cares earnestly about freedom is aroused against the Communists. But it is not only the Communists, it is in a more subtle way the Socialists who are blocking the efforts of the free world…”

~Max Eastman

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Socialist Hypothesis
Capitalism

Socialist Hypothesis

“If the socialist hypothesis were valid in general, some tiny shred of the benefits promised by it would have appeared when the Russian capitalists were expropriated and production taken over by the state…” ~Max Eastman

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Front Organization
Communism

Front Organization

“It was Marx, not Lenin, who invented the technique of the “front organization,” the device of pretending to be a democrat in order to destroy democracy, the ruthless purging of dissident party members…”

~Max Eastman

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A New Religion
Capitalism

A New Religion

“In Das Kapital…the force which guarantees the evolution of capitalism to the point of rupture, and the creation of a communist state, is that same…which Hegel laid on the whole Universe in the name of God.”

~Max Eastman

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