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In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party. -- Richard Dawkins
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. -- Lionel Blue
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness. -- Joe Eszterhas
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. -- Harold Bloom
Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be. -- Vladimir Putin
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself. -- Jay Griffiths
Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism. -- Dan Quayle
In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism. -- Robert Heilbroner
The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Again, it is belief without evidence. In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party. -- Richard Dawkins
The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown. -- Mona Charen
In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
It's ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They're totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There's about as much freedom as under Stalinism. -- Noam Chomsky

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