Socialism Quotes
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Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.
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Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.
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Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.
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Think of the problem of the world as a cart. It has to have two wheels. If you have one wheel, the cart doesn't go. If you have one wheel called socialism, it doesn't go. If you have only one wheel called capitalism, it doesn't go. It needs two wheels. These two wheels are capitalism and socialism.
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The goal of socialism is communism.
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Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.
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Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.
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I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
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For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
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If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.
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Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power.
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
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Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
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The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.
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Socialism was made to order for tyrants.
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Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.
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You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
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One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.