Socialist Quotes - Page 7

• I'm a very friendly socialist.

  China Mieville

  Friendly

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• America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

  Paul Broun

  America, Want, Nations

  "Broun not sure if Obama is citizen" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. March 5, 2010.

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• You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

  Ernest Mandel

  Trying, Revolution

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Loss, Risk, Investment

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• No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Saint, Communism, Communist

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

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• A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

  Ivan Illich

  Hands, Choices, Style

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• Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

  Johann Most

  Revolutionary, Shame, Flushing

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• Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

  Ernest Mandel

  Luxury, Democracy, Essentials

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

  David Hare

  Trying, Libertarian, Century

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

  David Hare

  Party, Dinner, Argument

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• Let the "socialist" snivellers croak, let the bourgeoisie rage and fume, but only people who shut their eyes so as not to see, and stuff their ears so as not to hear, can fail to notice that all over the world the birth pangs of the old, capitalist society, which is pregnant with socialism, have begun.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eye, People, Bourgeoisie

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• There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

  Jay McInerney

  Attention, World, Factory Workers

  "The interview: Jay McInerney" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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• Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Rejection, Systematic, Conservative

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.295, A&C Black

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• I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head.

  William J. Casey

  Heart, Men, Tests

  Quoted in the Washington Post, 7 May 1987.

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• And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

  Ernest Mandel

  Leader, Groups, Revolution

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

  Michel de Certeau

  Communism, Demonstration, Used

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.

  Douglas Sirk

  Party, Socialist Party

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• The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.

  Karl Liebknecht

  World, Republic, Defeat

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• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  P. Chidambaram

  School, Harvard, Committed

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• They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all it is. It is not a socialist seed. It is not a capitalist seed. It is not a mystical seed. It is not a determinist seed. It is simply a statement. We can be free. After that it’s all choice and chance.

  Karl Hess

  Spring, Ideas, Choices

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• The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

  Alexander Kotov

  School, Development, World

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• I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.

  Philip Gibbs

  War, Sleep, Fighting

  Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations.

  C. L. R. James

  Party, Struggle, Self

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• This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.

  John T. Flynn

  Enemy, Planning, Mask

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• There has been a plan in effect since at least 1917 to create, an artificial Extraterrestrial threat to the planet Earth, so as to bring about a one-world, Luciferian Totalitarian socialist government. This Extraterrestrial propaganda has been promoted through movies, through books, in the newspapers; so as to create the idea in the public mind that this phenomena related to Extraterrestrials is real and that the threat is real.

  Milton William Cooper

  Real, Book, Socialist Government

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