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Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

— Will Rogers The Autobiography of Will Rogers (1949)

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For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.

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I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

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Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

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