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I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

— Woody Guthrie

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Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.

Ever'body might be just one big soul,
Well it looks that a-way to me.

Tom Joad (1940)

I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose.

Statement quoted in Prophet Singer: The Voice And Vision of Woody Guthrie (2007)

We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.

Wherever little children are hungry and cry,
Wherever people ain't free.
Wherever men are fightin' for their rights,
That's where I'm a-gonna be, Ma.
That's where I'm a-gonna be.

Tom Joad (1940)

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

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

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

Bertrand Russell Unarmed Victory (1963)

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

Friedrich Engels Principles of Communism (1847)

Communism has sometimes succeeded as a scavenger, but never as a leader. It has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

John F. Kennedy

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