I am a communist. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not afraid of it. I believe in it. I believe in a world where everyone is equal, where everyone has enough to eat, where everyone has a home, where everyone has a job.
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English comic actor and silent-film auteur whose Tramp character defined early Hollywood and whose The Great Dictator (1940) satirized Hitler. Closely associated with Buster Keaton (silent-comedy peer of equal stature) and Harold Lloyd (third silent-comedy giant). For an intellectual contrast, see J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director (1924-1972) — Hoover pursued Chaplin for years on suspected communist sympathies, leading to the 1952 revocation of Chaplin's US re-entry permit and his Swiss exile — Hoover represented the McCarthy-era national-security state that was the institutional opposite of Chaplin's pro-immigrant Tramp humanism.
Attributed statement during the McCarthy era; actual quote is more nuanced. Chaplin denied being a communist but admitted socialist sympathies.
Date: 1940s-1950s
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