Communism
Chinese Communists
“Chinese Communists were hand-in-glove with Stalin in his plan to seize Manchuria, and then all China, and then all Asia, and then the world, for the totalitarian revolution.” ~Max Eastman
Totalitarian
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Marxism
Lenin’s Methods
“I still regarded Stalin’s totalitarian dictatorship as an enemy, rather than a result, of the policies of Lenin. It took me another two years to arrive at the knowledge that Lenin’s methods—bolshevik Marxism—were to blame.” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Perfection of Tyranny
“It (socialism) survived long enough to show what was in it: tyranny, namely, and that new perfection of tyranny, the totalitarian state.” ~Max Eastman
Tyranny
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
Tyranny
Promised Enlightened Interests
“The backers of Hitler in Germany made the same mistake about the Nazi party that the workers and soldiers in Petrograd made about the Bolshevik party…” ~Max Eastman
Tyranny
Totalitarian State
“An armed seizure of power by a highly organized minority party…will normally lead to the totalitarian state. ‘Totalitarian state’ is merely the modern name for tyranny.” ~Max Eastman