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The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.


Robert Zubrin

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AS GOOD AS IT GETS In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over...
FRAN LEBOWITZ Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive! Dead at the level of faith; alive as...
MILOVAN DJILAS The Soviet Union model of what a Communist country is supposed to look like doesn't work for China. ...
JAMES GREEN We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspaper...
JOHN SWEENEY Even before the expansion of slave labor in the South and into the West, slavery was already an impo...
GREG GRANDIN It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a h...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power...
MARTTI AHTISAARI NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat ...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Labor Day weekend is not as important from an economic standpoint as it used to be.
LEE SENTELL The business community is in the best position to argue the need for workers. The unions are the bes...
ANGELO AMADOR Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
DARIO ARGENTO It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a h...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed ...
BORIS SPASSKY The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world
RONALD REAGAN Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Uni...
PETER BERGEN The Department of Labor is committed to getting benefits to eligible workers and their families as q...
DAVID JAMES It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and...
DALAI LAMA Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any la...
NORBERT WIENER The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that the Soviet U...
RONALD REAGAN If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, an...
GEORGE GALLOWAY And as it is set up today, I believe, sadly, it has no hope of uniting the 90 percent of workers who...
ANDREW STERN Under the old Soviet system, with closed borders, they didn't have a real problem or issue. Nobody c...
GARY SULLIVAN Western Union is dedicated to serving its customers in the communities where they live and work. As ...
CHRISTINA GOLD Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for ...
ERIC CHANEY The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, a...
W. E. B. DU BOIS The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted -- becau...
RONALD REAGAN This is a campaign to stop the exploitation of workers.
ALAN KEARNEY Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency...
NIGEL HAMILTON I believe if an individual wants to join organized labor and work under a union contract, they shoul...
PAUL LEPAGE I don't think the western world is questioning capitalism. Capitalism as a concept is not someth...
KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA Putin is sometimes described as a revanchist, seeking to recreate the Soviet Union. That is a useful...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
RICHARD M. NIXON It's interesting how at odds we were then with the Soviet Union,
SCOTT CARPENTER Under these agreements projects are built on time and under budget. That is why they have been used ...
DICK ANFANG At labor market turning points, the household survey does better because it picks up self-employed w...
WAYNE AYERS Admit it or not, migrant workers have become an indispensable part of the country's industrial labor...
LU XIAOWEN OPEC is not part of the misunderstanding between Iran and the Western democracies.
EDMUND DAUKORU As far as we are concerned, Labor Day is a legitimate venue for the workers to exercise their consti...
JOSUA MATA The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind o...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER If I had to choose between life in the Soviet Union and life in the U. S. A. , I would certainly cho...
GRAHAM GREENE Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
HAROLD PINTER In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn...
VAGIT ALEKPEROV It is clear enough why both major propaganda systems insist upon this fantasy. Since its origins, th...
NOAM CHOMSKY Was the Soviet Union reformable? I would say no. They said, 'Okay, the Soviet Union isn't wo...
MARINE LE PEN The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many...
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JEB BUSH As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western worl...
CAITLIN MORAN Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
JOSEPH STALIN I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no c...
ANDY STERN Active exploitation of this issue has been, and continues to be, observed. A primitive instant messe...
SYMANTEC CORP Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important rea...
XI JINPING The exploitation of distressed workers and the social disparities must not continue.
MOSHE KAHLON Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Look at the railroads and Western Union; some of those have been antiquated.
BOB RADER Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though...
RICHARD ROGERS I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination ...
PAUL ROBESON The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he re...
LYSANDER SPOONER The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock...
STEFAN MOLYNEUX One basis for society is that of helping your neighbor -- but in the software world this is piracy. ...
RICHARD STALLMAN We are losing business opportunities as a result of the shortage of workers and the affordable housi...
KATHY BAYLIS One of the premises of free market capitalism as an institution, as wrong headed as it might be, is ...
CRAIG DUNN As far as I know, the use of the word 'slave' has never been even proposed by anyone as offensive.
ROGER PAYNE At the same time, it is a cheap way to achieve maximum effect for the union. An opera house with bal...
KLAUS ZEHELEIN The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 ot...
JEFFREY SACHS As to industrial conditions, however, Babbitt had thought a great deal, and his opinions may be coor...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, ...
MARY HARRIS JONES Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industri...
GEORGE F. KENNAN it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) Many of the arts practiced at home are especially nourishing to the soul because they foster contemp...
THOMAS MOORE We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
THOMAS PIKETTY By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
BARBARA AMIEL Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of l...
LUDWIG VON MISES Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you ...
GARY ARNOLD I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during...
CRAIG BRUCE The shift has been toward the former Soviet Union to Asian countries.
JASON GOULDEN Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
YURI ANDROPOV Abuse is never deserved, it is an exploitation of innocence and physical disadvantage, which is perc...
LORRAINE NILON It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the ju...
PANKAJ MISHRA The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was elimina...
MICHAEL MOORE As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union,...
GEORGE MASON As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights,...
ELIZABETH ESTY The caricatures and cartoons which have appeared are a very serious issue as far as Muslims are conc...
ANJEM CHOUDARY The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as ...
SIMONE WEIL I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for them...
MA JIAN The percentages are low, no question, ... The work is leaving the workers. This outsourcing is a pro...
JACK SHEA It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some bl...
MALCOLM X I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien sme...
BEN KATCHOR In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers...
RICHARD TRUMKA She tells me everything I know about the Soviet Union.
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyl...
KARL MARX Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER This is becoming the pre-eminent issue of labor negotiations. Sikorsky is certainly making good mone...
JAMES DUFFY In every union roles are assumed, some traditional, some not. My husband used to pay his own bills, ...
AYELET WALDMAN The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify an...
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ROBERT FULGHUM I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an...
ROBERT SCOBLE Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
ROBERT TROUT Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ...
ROBERT COLLIER I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
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