Socialist Quotes - Page 5

• Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Europe, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Class, Democracy

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• The world's becoming a museum of socialist failures.

  John Dos Passos

  Museums, World, Becoming

  John Dos Passos (1970). “The theme is freedom”

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• And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation

  Christine O'Donnell

  America, Support, Asking

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• Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

  Dick Armey

  Snow, Dying, Jamestown

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• It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares.

  Rachel Marsden

  Math, Political, Usual

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• According to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice. We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Lying, Essence, Practice

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• The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Men, White

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 11

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• On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand, we have the day-to-day struggle; on the other, the social revolution. It follows that this movement can best advance by tacking betwixt and between the two dangers by which it is constantly being threatened. One is the loss of its mass character; the other, the abandonment of its goal. One is the danger of sinking back to the condition of a sect; the other, the danger of becoming a movement of bourgeois social reform.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Struggle, Character, Loss

  "The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?".

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• The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, America, Prejudice

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• The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Socialist Government, People, Black

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• Socialism Is For The People, Not The Socialist.

  Andrew Wilkow

  People, Socialism

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2017

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• My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

  Jacques Delors

  Regret, Party, Presidential

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• A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

  Enver Hoxha

  Country, Men, Socialist Countries

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• If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

  Shirley Williams

  Party, Belief, Democratic

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• What social safety net does is provide a glimmer of hope for what a democratic socialist society might look like. It makes the claim that without social provisions, without a welfare state, without a social contract, society can't survive. We need a foundation for people - economically, politically, and socially - where what the Right considers "entitlements" are really rights.

  Henry Giroux

  People, Safety, Welfare

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• Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Socialist Countries, Cities

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• No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of
  their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Intelligent, Agreement, Ideas

  "Reply to a Peasant's Question". "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 36, (p. 501), www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Views, Wings, Libertarian

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• I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do not believe that government should dictate wages. We have seen this fail in Socialist and Communist countries. It will do irreparable harm.

  Richard Riordan

  Country, Believe, Independent

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• All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Party, Technique

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ralph Nader choose the man with whom to share the responsibility of running a distant third, California activist Peter Camejo. You may remember that Camejo ran for president in 1976 on the Socialist Workers Party ticket. Actually, you might only remember that if you run a lesbian, vegetarian, bookstore.

  Jon Stewart

  Running, Party, Responsibility

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• One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.

  Tony Kushner

  Gay, Play, People

  Interview with Andrea Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1995.

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• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Philosophy, Evil

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

  Paul Samuelson

  Economy, Proof, Function

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