[The Common Market<nowiki>]</nowiki> is a political device for creating a European alliance by a back door... From feebleness, folly or sheer blindne… - A. J. P. Taylor

The Communist Party is not concerned with peace or with better conditions; it is only concerned with power. It exploits everyone, including its own members, for this purpose.

Economic planning from above can be carried out in peacetime only by the aid of fines, prisons, and ultimately concentration camps.

The Commune illustrates the general principle that a revolution occurs not simply as a matter of material suffering, but when a regime is discredited by incompetence and failure... The Communards, though not factory workers, were proletarians in the original sense. They were the eternally oppressed, and they aspired, however clumsily, to found a society where the tyranny of the few over the many would cease for evermore.