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I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

I've never said I'm a communist.

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

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.

In Georgia, people had already understood that communism couldn't survive, and I came to the institute in Moscow, and people still believed in it. They were completely different people, and I found it very difficult psychologically.