Socialism Quotes - Page 21

• Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Effort, Victory

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Russia, Organization

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".

  Leon Trotsky

  Real, Party, Struggle

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.

  Leon Trotsky

  Curves, Firsts, Revolution

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Errors, Appreciate

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• If we close our eyes to the dark sides of the workers' State which we have helped to create, we shall never reach socialism.

  Leon Trotsky

  Eye, Dark, Sides

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• Israel has the mentality of a small Kibbutz. Kibbutz is kind of like a small village that - actually there aren't many Kibbutz left in Israel - but it was something that was based on socialism and based on a principle that everyone is working for the Kibbutz and the Kibbutz is one.

  Meital Dohan

  Israel, Principles, Small Villages

  Interview with Anthony Statler, www.bullz-eye.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to do is to get the kind of economic growth of the capitalist world. It can't be done. It creates the same kind of problems as in the capitalist world.

  Harry Magdoff

  Growth, Done, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Whether or not you agree with Bernie Sanders' version of socialism, it is enormously significant that, for the first time in US history, a presidential candidates who calls himself a socialist has had an actual shot at winning the presidential election. And to his credit, he has not backed down from the label.

  Kshama Sawant

  Winning, Presidential, Labels

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, Cold, Used

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• Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

  Kshama Sawant

  Economy, Better Life, Used

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries.

  Kshama Sawant

  Country, Different, World

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

  Kshama Sawant

  Struggle, Past, College

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

  Indira Gandhi

  Degrees, Economic, Form

  Source: sangam.org

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• I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Democratic Socialism, People

  Source: nefac.net

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• His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, Book, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Goal, Secret

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• When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, Unions, Ends

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• I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Opposites, People

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Organization, Citizens

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• If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

  Erich Fromm

  Lying, States, Claims

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• The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

  Erich Fromm

  Ownership, States, Industry

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• I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

  Erich Fromm

  Management, Enterprise

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• I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

  Erich Fromm

  Mixtures, Modern, States

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• What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Opposites, Culture

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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