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

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

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.

Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.

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.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.