Socialism Quotes - Page 13

• The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

  George Will

  Wall, Achievement, Berlin

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• Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Intellectual, Communism, Program

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

  Hugo Chavez

  Eugenics, Path, Spots

  "Bush to Take on Troubles Abroad in Latin America". www.foxnews.com. November 2, 2005.

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• When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.

  Sergio Leone

  Men, Listening, Modern

  Interview With Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. December 28, 2012.

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• To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Needs, May

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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

  Joseph Stalin

  Russia, Communism, States

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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• 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, States

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Fascists

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• I have one of the strongest records in fighting for senior citizens. I led the effort to prevent cuts to Social Security. But I think for some seniors, they remember the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union. They conflated the term "democratic socialism" with communism.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Fighting, Cutting

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the principle "to each according to his work" and combine the interests of the state, the collective and the individual, for only thus can we arouse people's enthusiasm for labour and develop socialist production.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Long, People, Historical

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• In 1949, I believed that social progress, the triumph of the proletariat, socialism would lead to the emancipation of women. But I saw that nothing came of it: first of all, that socialism was not achieved anywhere, and that in certain countries which called themselves socialist, the situation of women was no better than it was in so-called capitalist countries.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, Progress, Saws

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.

  Arundhati Roy

  Opponents, Worthy, Capitalist

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.

  Riane Eisler

  Caring, People, Challenges

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go back far enough it meant basically control of production by producers, elimination of wage labor, democratization of all spheres of life; production, commerce, education, media, workers control of factories, community control of communities, and so on. That was socialism once. But it hasn't meant that for a hundred years. Socialism meant something different.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Media, Years

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more rights in the United States and England than they had in Russia, and it was somehow still called socialism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Russia, Rights

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism is New Deal Liberalism. In fact, his actual policies would not have been a great surprise to General Eisenhower. The fact that this is called a "political revolution" is a sign of how far to the right the political spectrum has shifted, mainly in the last 30 years since the neoliberal programs began to be instituted. What he was calling for was a restoration of something like New Deal Liberalism, which is a very good thing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Political Revolution, Years

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by a combination of external force and internal corruption.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Effort, Corruption

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the first world in several aspects. We think that without the heavy burden of the blockade that we can move forward a lot more in building prosperous and sustainable socialism to which we aspire.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Moving, Thinking, Development

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Cuba cannot go back to capitalism; we know all the tragic experience that it has generated for Latin America and the world. We also know the positive experiences of socialism not only in our geographic environment but also like what we are witnessing in China.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Latin, America, Positive Experiences

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• It is only through popular consultation and exchange with the people about social and economic policies that we were going to define the strategic direction of Cuba in the next years. To reach prosperous and sustainable socialism, which is our aspiration, we discussed that with the entire population.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Years, People, Population

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where everybody improves, not where just the elite improve and the others get worse.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Order, Trying, Overcoming

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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