Quotes About Socialism

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

Creative activity at the grassroots is the basic factor of the new public life. Let the workers set up workers' control at their factories. Let them supply the villages with manufactures in exchange for grain […] Socialism cannot be decreed from above. Its spirit rejects the mechanical bureaucratic approach: living creative socialism is the product of the masses themselves.

It is important for us to draw literally all working people into the government of the state. It is a task of tremendous difficulty. But socialism cannot be implemented by a minority, by the Party. It can be implemented by tens of millions when they have learned to do it for themselves.

In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

After the experience both of Europe and Asia, anyone who speaks of non - class politics and of non - class socialism deserves to be simply put in a cage and exhibited alongside of the Australian kangaroo.

that social-chauvinism (socialism in words, chauvinism in deeds)

Social-Democracy leads the struggle of the working class not only for better terms for the sale of labour power, but also for the abolition of the social system which compels the propertyless to sell themselves to the rich

The question of the relation of the socialist proletarian revolution to the state, therefore, is acquiring not only practical political importance, but also the significance of a most urgent problem of the day, the problem of explaining to the masses what they will have to do before long to free themselves from capitalist tyranny.

All officials, without exception, elected and subject to recall at any time, their salaries reduced to the level of ordinary "workmen's wages" — these simple and "self-evident" democratic measures, while completely uniting the interests of the workers and the majority of the peasants, at the same time serve as a bridge leading from capitalism to socialism.

we shall move on to a break with these traitors to socialism and shall fight for the complete destruction of the old state machine in order that the armed proletariat itself should become the government.

Les bolcheviks, une fois consolidé et légalisé leur pouvoir, en tant que socialistes étatistes qui croient en la direction centralisée et autoritaire, commenceront à diriger la vie du pays et du peuple du sommet. […] Les bolcheviks développeront une autorité politique et un appareil d'État qui écraseront toute opposition avec une poigne de fer. »

His Bolshevik revolution had not brought peace to Russia, but a terrible civil war in which 28 million Russians had lost their lives. The principles of socialism which Lenin had forced upon the people had not brought increased production as Marx had promised, but had reduced production to a point where even in normal times it would not adequately clothe nor feed half the people.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

Socialism is politicized envy.

Left-wing policies don't stop the rich from being rich, they stop the non-rich from getting rich.

los republicanos actuaron de forma represora para con los necesitados, que terminaron apostando por el anarcosindicalismo y la violencia en las calles.

Er erklärte mir, der Faschismus habe doch auch viele Menschen aus dem Proletariat getäuscht und sie müßten aufgeklärt, wie er sagte: 'umerzogen' werden, denn es handle sich um 'entwicklungsfähige Proletarier', die auf den richtigen Weg gebracht werden müßten.

since the strong materialistic substructure that lies under most concepts of socialism seems to oblige socialists to reject nonmaterial phenomena out of hand and without inspection of facts.

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

In June, 1957, Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Communist Party boss, was interviewed before a nation-wide American television audience. With calm assurance he stated: ". . . I can prophesy that your grandchildren in America will live under socialism. And please do not be afraid of that. Your grandchildren will not understand how their grandparents did not understand the progressive nature of a socialist society.

We have reinforced this limited choice by putting socialism in our left hand and capitalism in our right hand, leaving no other hands. The

The goods produced by labour above what is necessary for survival Marx called the "Surplus Value".