Alexander Cockburn Quote: Cockburn's personal history lin...

Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed.

- Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Quotes

- George Soros

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

Topic(s): Believe , I Believe , Enemy , Threat , Investing , Communist , Capitalist , Laissez Faire Capitalism More...

- Salvador Dalí

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

Topic(s): Painter , Communist

- Dorothy Day

The Communists in Cuba didn’t assist Castro in his revolution. They weren’t on the side of the students. They didn’t do anything to help in the invasion or the long-continuing struggle from the Oriente province down.

Topic(s): Long , Helping , Sides , Struggle , Students , Revolution , Communist , Continuing , Cuba , Invasion , Provinces , Castro More...

- Winston Churchill

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.