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The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

— Anatoly Chubais

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✓Similar Perspectives

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

— Anatoly Chubais

One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn't notice - to mix periods - when the Rubicon was crossed.

— Tom Stoppard

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.

— Ismail Kadare

I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.

— Steve Bannon

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

— Anatoly Chubais

It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.

— Barbara Amiel

Starting reforms in the Soviet Union was only possible from above, only from above. Any attempt to go from below was suppressed, suppressed in a most resolute way.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Karl Marx

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

— Michael Bennett