Quotes About Socialism

Chapter 10 ECONOMICS The new socialist human being should think like Lenin, act like Stalin, and work like Stakhanov. —Walter Ulbricht The definition of socialism: an incessant struggle against difficulties that would not exist in any other system. —Hungarian joke of the 1950s

Yeah, because nobody works in socialist countries. They're a real hoot.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

The Fed's action is, as the saying goes, socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.

Today's self-professed socialists want greater government investment, new and expanded safety nets, a "Green New Deal" to address climate change, and higher taxes on the rich. Bernie Sanders himself makes clear his

camarada bolchevique Yevgueni Preobrazhenski* sí describió la prensa de papel moneda como «esa ametralladora del Comisariado de Finanzas que vomitaba fuego en la retaguardia del sistema burgués».

Sosyalizmin ve komünizmin hedefi emekçiyi yükseltmek deÄŸil, burjuvay? indirmektir. Emekçi ise ayn? noktada, hatta söylediÄŸim gibi, daha kötü noktada kal?r. Burjuvan?n yitirdiÄŸi ÅŸeyden yararlanan asla emekçi deÄŸildir. AnarÅŸizm ise tersine bir sevgi rejimidir, sevilen insanlara bask? uygulamaya çal???lmaz.

The dreamers of ideals [?] – socialists, altruists, and humanitarians of whatever ilk – make me physically sick to my stomach. They're idealists with no ideal, thinkers with no thought. They're enchanted by life's surface because their destiny is to love rubbish, which floats on the water and they think it's beautiful, because scattered shells float on the water too.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

The Left loves to demonize the financially successful.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes.

Ten days that shook the world.

If you rely on a more conventional understanding of the term 'left-wing' as being associated with gradations of socialism in the emancipation of the working class, the Leap Manifesto looks something more along the lines of what the great British socialist and essayist George Orwell was on about in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' in 1937.

The term 'meritocracy' was coined by socialist theoretician Michael Young, who crafted the party's 1945 election manifesto.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.

There is nothing wrong with socialism or communism but they are irrelevant now. Some intellectual terrorists are provoking people in the name of these ideologies just like some religious terrorists go and demolish mosques and want to build temples in their place.

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.