For the state to wither away completely, complete communism is necessary.
Communism Quotes
Karl Marx has the most entries, then Olavo de Carvalho, Yuval Noah Harari, Gustave de Molinari and Engels, so supporters and critics share the page. Bertrand Russell has the most sourced lines. In The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920) he says the hopes behind communism are as admirable as those of the Sermon on the Mount but are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm. In Why I Am Not a Christian (1927) he lists it with Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity and Islam as untrue and harmful. In 1963 he says he dislikes it because it is undemocratic.
Three entries are marked misattributed. The line about being called a saint for feeding the hungry and a Communist for asking why they are hungry is credited to Dorothy Day, and the notes list several variants. Charles de Gaulle is credited with a remark that the evolution toward communism is inevitable, and Barry Goldwater with one about fraternities.
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.
I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human.
It must be admitted that politically communism is the same [as fascism].
Communism is a specter called forth when those in power feel their grip erode.
World communism is like a malignant parasite which feeds only on diseased tissue.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.