Quotes About Socialism

Even notoriety may be turned to beneficent uses, and I rejoice if the disposition of the newspapers to record my activities results in bringing more often into their columns the word Socialism.

First — How did I become a Socialist? By reading.

The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues that arise from high taxes, oppressive regulation, seizure of private property, and dictating of individual behavior, people understand them, and they reject them.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

Komunisti?ko društvo lišava individuu svojih odgovornosti: uvijek su oni ti koji odlu?uju...Istina, svi kao i oni najbli?i Staljinu, davali su zlo?inu suprotan efekat. Mi smo zlo?ine prihvatili kao važne doprinose pobjedi socijalizma. Vjerovali smo kako je sve što ja?a politi?ku mo? komunisti?ke partije u SSSR i svijetu pobjeda za socijalizam. Nikada nismo mogli zamisliti da može biti sukoba u unutrašnjosti komunizma izmedju politike i etike.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

most people are worse off than they were under Communism . … The quality of life has deteriorated with the spread of crime and the disappearance of the social safety net

Then there were the distorting effects that unremitting capitalist encirclement had upon the building of socialism. Throughout its entire seventy-three-year history of counterrevolutionary invasion, civil war, forced industrialization, Stalinist purges and deportations, Nazi conquest, cold war, and nuclear arms race, the Soviet Union did not know one day of peaceful development.

it is not socialism that subverts democracy, but democracy that subverts capitalism.

the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country.

For the love of god, find something actually socially useful to do with your money. Because if you don't, socialism's going to start looking a lot better to a whole lot of people.

It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.

We've been at this 56 years and ... we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism, and we form part of a single party called the Communist Party.

That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie.

We then saw this same administration, desperate to reverse its falling poll numbers, continue to stoke the embers of class warfare. There is no more anti-American, anti-democracy rhetoric than this. To turn neighbor against neighbor because of the size of one's pocketbook is to plow the ground and sow it with the seeds of socialism. In America, only opportunity is assured, not outcomes. Anyone who promises otherwise is acting contrary to the values upon which our Republic was founded.

Margaret McDonald, a fifteen-year-old Christian prophet, declared in 1830 that the Antichrist was Robert Owen, a cofounder of socialism.

of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. History

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.