Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambitions, but that didn't stop us from studying Marxism in theory and Communism in practice to better understand that adversary.
We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.
I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
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.
My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be.