Socialist Quotes - Page 20

• For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Russia, Organization

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Political, Aspect, Sentiments

  "Hitler's Beneficiaries. How the Nazis Bought the German People". Book by Götz Aly, pp. 16-17, 2007.

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• We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.

  Anthony Crosland

  Party, Believe, Mean

  The Times, September 8, 1977.

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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, Socialism

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

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• Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Fall, Russia

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

  Oswald Spengler

  Path, Outbreaks, Capitalism

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.390, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

  Leon Trotsky

  Organization, Tasks, Socialism

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.

  Werner Herzog

  War, Fall, Volcanoes

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I was more tuned into the assassinations, the riots that were going on, like in Watts, and, in fact, my summer before my senior year in high school I went on the Experiment in International Living to Sweden, yes, with a group of students , you know, leisurely discussion over the summer about, you know, where we were going to go with our lives, and how did you how did, you know, being a born-again Christian mesh with being, you know, a socialist from New York.

  Jill Stein

  Summer, Senior, Christian

  Source: www.politico.com

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• [Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

  Bill Ayers

  Kings, Luther, Ends

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Russia, Realization

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• This has been a huge problem for a very long period of time that we have, that Mexico's economy and Mexico's socialist orientation makes it so that people want to come to the United States in such numbers. I wish that we could figure out a way to do this in a legal fashion because I believe in the Latino culture.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Fashion, Believe, Numbers

  Source: latinalista.com

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• The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

  Roger Scruton

  Simple, Order, Mankind

  Roger Scruton (2006). “A Political Philosophy”, p.208, A&C Black

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• The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Goal, Secret

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• For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Principles, Brotherly Love

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Opposites, People

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

  Erich Fromm

  Lying, Socialism, States

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the uncoordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present.

  James Callaghan

  Country, Powerful, Europe

  Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. December 15, 1960.

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• I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

  Hugo Chavez

  Doe, Company, Comrade

  Statement of 21 September 2008, as quoted in "Credit Crisis Fools Latin America's Leaders: Alexandre Marinis" at Bloomberg.com, October 21, 2008.

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• We have a centrist nationalist group of people in this country, lots of them, and we have a socialist group of people in this country, lots of them. And that's not, to me, the American idea.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Country, Ideas, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Class, Historical, Rising

  "The Junius Pamphlet". 1915.

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• It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.

  Enoch Powell

  Kings, East Berlin, Choices

  The Daily Telegraph, April 29, 1967.

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• We have to frankly break the back of the secular-socialist machine, elect people committed to representing the American people, and then methodically rip the system apart.

  Newt Gingrich

  Rip, People, Machines

  The Mark Levin Show, ABC Radio Networks, June 24, 2010.

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• When external and internal forces hostile to the development of socialism try to turn the development of a given socialist country in the direction of the restoration of the capitalist system, when a threat arises to the cause of socialism in that country ... this is no longer merely a problem for that country's people, but a common problem, the concern of all socialist countries.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Country, Socialist Countries, People

  Speech at the 5th Congress of the Polish United Workers Party (12 November 1968), quoted in "The Rise and Fall of the Brezhnev Doctrine in Soviet Foreign Policy" by Matthew J. Ouimet, 2003.

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• You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

  Ken Livingstone

  Revolution

  "Citizen Ken". Book by John Carvel, 1984.

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