socialism quotes

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he’s around.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

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

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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!

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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.

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.