Joseph Stalin Quotes About Socialism

Quotes about: Socialism

• World dictatorship can be established only when the victory of socialism has been achieved in certain countries or groups of countries ... [and] when these federation of republics have finally grown into a world union of Soviet Socialist Republics uniting the whole of mankind under the hegemony of the international proletariat organized as a state.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, Historical, Victory

• If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Freedom, Gun Control, Weapons

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

• Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism.

  Joseph Stalin

  Philosophical, World, Materialism

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

• Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained
  similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?

  Joseph Stalin

  Liberty, Germany, Socialism

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

• Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Socialism, Communism

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

• The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.

  Joseph Stalin

  Organization, Roots, Foundation

• The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.

  Joseph Stalin

  Hands, Order, Land

• Many understand "state socialism" in this way. Sometimes a system is concealed behind this term in which the capitalist state, in the interests of preparation for the conduct of war, takes upon itself the maintenance of a certain number of private enterprises.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Numbers, Preparation

• Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

  Joseph Stalin

  Mean, Italian, Land

• Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Socialism, Fascists

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