Vladimir Lenin schreef: "Op deze wijze wordt het 'burgerlijke recht' in de eerste fase van de communistische maatschappij (die men gewoonlijk socialisme noemt) niet geheel opgeheven, maar slechts gedeeltelijk," (…) "Wat gewoonlijk socialisme genoemd wordt, duidde Marx aan als de 'eerste' of lagere fase van de communistische maatschappij. Het woord 'communisme' kan ook hier aangewend worden, in zoverre de productiemiddelen eigendom van de gemeenschap zijn; maar men moet hierbij niet vergeten dat dit communisme niet volledig is." (Uit Vladimir Lenin: Staat en Revolutie; 1917; hoofdstuk V).
Jozef Stalin zei: “Our Soviet society has already, in the main, succeeded in achieving Socialism; it has created a Socialist system, i.e., it has brought about what Marxists in other words call the first, or lower, phase of Communism. Hence, in the main, we have already achieved the first phase of Communism. Socialism. (...) The fundamental principle of this phase of Communism is, as you know, the formula : "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his work." ” Uit: Jozef Stalin: On the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R; 1936.
(en) Pjotr Kropotkin. Ethics: Origin and Development, Hoofdstuk 8. Gearchiveerd op 16 april 2021 "Morelly’s books exercised a mighty influence in the prerevolutionary period, and for a long time served as a model for all the plans of reorganization of society along communistic principles. These books, most likely, inspired Mably (1709–1785), who, in his works “Entretiens de Phocion sur le rapport de la morale avec la politique,” (1763) and “Le Droit et les devoirs du citoyen,” advocated communism and community of property (communité des biens). According to Mably, greed is the main obstacle in the road of mankind to a happy and moral life. It is necessary, therefore, to destroy first of all this “eternal enemy of equality” and to create a social system where no one would have a motive to seek happiness in augmenting his material welfare. Later these ideas inspired Gracchus Babeuf, who, together with his friends Buonarroti and Sylvain Maréchal, formed the “conspiracy of the Equals,” for which Babeuf was executed in 1797."
(en) Rudolf Rocker. Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice, pp. 4. Gearchiveerd op 16 april 2021 "Anarchist ideas are to be found in every period of known history, although there still remains a good deal of work for historical work in this field. We encounter them in the Chinese sage, Lao-Tse (The Course and The Right Way) and in the later Greek philosophers, the Hedonists and Cynics and other advocates of so-called “natural right,” and in particular in Zeno who, at the opposite pole from Plato, founded the Stoic school. They found expression in the teaching of the Gnostic, Karpocrates, in Alexandria, and had an unmistakable influence on certain Christian sects of the Middle Ages in France, Germany and Holland, almost all of which fell victims to the most savage persecutions. In the history of the Bohemian reformation they found a powerful champion in Peter Chelcicky, who in his work, “The Net of Faith,” passed the same judgement on the church and the state as Tolstoy did later. Among the great humanists there was Rabelais, who in his description of the happy Abbey of Thélème (Gargantua) presented a picture of life freed from all authoritarian restraints. Of other pioneers of libertarian thinking we will mention here only La Boétie, Sylvan Maréchal, and, above all, Diderot,"
(en) Pjotr Kropotkin. Ethics: Origin and Development, Hoofdstuk 8. Gearchiveerd op 16 april 2021 "Morelly’s books exercised a mighty influence in the prerevolutionary period, and for a long time served as a model for all the plans of reorganization of society along communistic principles. These books, most likely, inspired Mably (1709–1785), who, in his works “Entretiens de Phocion sur le rapport de la morale avec la politique,” (1763) and “Le Droit et les devoirs du citoyen,” advocated communism and community of property (communité des biens). According to Mably, greed is the main obstacle in the road of mankind to a happy and moral life. It is necessary, therefore, to destroy first of all this “eternal enemy of equality” and to create a social system where no one would have a motive to seek happiness in augmenting his material welfare. Later these ideas inspired Gracchus Babeuf, who, together with his friends Buonarroti and Sylvain Maréchal, formed the “conspiracy of the Equals,” for which Babeuf was executed in 1797."
(en) Rudolf Rocker. Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice, pp. 4. Gearchiveerd op 16 april 2021 "Anarchist ideas are to be found in every period of known history, although there still remains a good deal of work for historical work in this field. We encounter them in the Chinese sage, Lao-Tse (The Course and The Right Way) and in the later Greek philosophers, the Hedonists and Cynics and other advocates of so-called “natural right,” and in particular in Zeno who, at the opposite pole from Plato, founded the Stoic school. They found expression in the teaching of the Gnostic, Karpocrates, in Alexandria, and had an unmistakable influence on certain Christian sects of the Middle Ages in France, Germany and Holland, almost all of which fell victims to the most savage persecutions. In the history of the Bohemian reformation they found a powerful champion in Peter Chelcicky, who in his work, “The Net of Faith,” passed the same judgement on the church and the state as Tolstoy did later. Among the great humanists there was Rabelais, who in his description of the happy Abbey of Thélème (Gargantua) presented a picture of life freed from all authoritarian restraints. Of other pioneers of libertarian thinking we will mention here only La Boétie, Sylvan Maréchal, and, above all, Diderot,"
(en) Alan Ryan. On Politcs, Hoofdstuk 17: The French Revolution and Its Critics-Sectie: Saint-Simon (p. 619). Gearchiveerd op 29 oktober 2020. Geraadpleegd op 27 oktober 2020.
(en) Alan Ryan. On Politics, Hoofdstuk 17: The French Revolution and Its Critics-Sectie: Saint-Simon (p. 620). Gearchiveerd op 29 oktober 2020. Geraadpleegd op 27 oktober 2020.
(en) Alan Ryan. On Politics, Hoofdstuk 17: The French Revolution and Its Critics-Sectie: Saint-Simon (pp. 619-620). Gearchiveerd op 29 oktober 2020. Geraadpleegd op 27 oktober 2020.
