Socialism Quotes

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

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.

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

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.

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.

The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

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.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it.

The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

As I've watched the Berlin Wall come down, the cry for freedom in China, and the eastern bloc nations, I rejoice, because I see the bankruptcy of Marxist-Leninism, socialism in this world.

I take a much more pragmatic view than many people on the Left about working with Neil Kinnock. Kinnock represents the best vehicle possible for achieving socialism now.

The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

Bernie Sanders has shown that socialism is no longer the barrier that it used to be during the Cold War.

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

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

The system of plunder derives much of its support from individuals who do not subscribe to socialism but who say, 'We're paying for it, so we might as well get our share'

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

I am convinced Socialism is the only answer.

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically.

We've been at this 56 years and ... we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism, and we form part of a single party called the Communist Party.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy." But it makes about the same sense.

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.

I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."