Communism Quotes

The biggest mistake Yoko and I made... was allowing ourselves to become influenced by the male-macho 'serious revolutionaries,' and their insane ideas about killing people to save them from capitalism and/or communism (depending on your point of view). We should have stuck to our own way of working for peace: bed-ins, billboards, etc.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

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

Communism begins where atheism begins.

A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism.