 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
... My first hostile criticism of him (Marx) was published in 1896. But my objections to modern Communism go deeper than my objections to Marx. It is the abandonment of democracy that I find particularly disastrous. A minority resting its power upon the activities of a secret police is bound to be cruel, oppressive and obscurantist. ...
.. Communism is a doctrine bred of poverty, hatred and strife. Its spread can only be arrested by diminishing the area of poverty and hatred
Source: Original title: The Marxist fraud.
Reprinted
as "Why I am not a communist" in: Portraits from Memory and Other Essays, 1956 More info.: Not available