By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
Democratic socialists, why don’t you open your eyes, ‘Clockwork Orange’-style, and look at the truth.
We have to be honest and state that Nazis were involved in all Austrian parties after the Second World War: in the Freedom Party, in the Socialist Party, and also in my party.
In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
I don’t want to raise a family in a country run by left-wing socialists.
In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.
You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.
There’s a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a ’30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.
We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers’ irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector.
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.
Bill Clinton is a moderate Democrat. I’m a democratic socialist.
I might not be a good socialist, any more than I’m a good Christian, but I am one.
Obamacare is a perfect tool to crush free enterprise and force all Americans into a socialist health care system.
I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle’s visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that’s what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.
The term ‘meritocracy’ was coined by socialist theoretician Michael Young, who crafted the party’s 1945 election manifesto.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
My feminist values are rooted in my socialist values. The number of women CEOs in Britain’s biggest companies is irrelevant if they pay their women workers poverty wages or discriminate against black employees.
Copyright is fundamentally socialist – it is radical and redistributive, subversive even. How else would you describe a form of property that anyone can create out of nothing?
In my book, ‘The Big Three in Economics,’ I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam Smith and his free-market philosophy, only to see a new and more vibrant global marketplace reemerge after being savagely attacked by Keynesians, Marxists, and assorted socialists.
Too many younger Americans have been misled by the Green New Deal, which is a socialist manifesto more than a climate proposal. The GND’s reckless energy policies would punish American workers while allowing China to pollute at will.
I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal – that is not a new idea.
There is a buffet of ideologies for me to choose from. I’ve been a fan of certain communist and socialist ideals. Some have failed, some have succeeded. I’ve lived long enough to understand where all they failed.
Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern white intellectual circles as one of the ‘best of his race.’ As an avowed socialist, he was the only black member of the original 19 wealthy socialist founders of the NAACP.
I honestly don’t know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I’m not socialist, I know that.
All across the country, the DSA socialists are mobilizing to stop Eric Adams. They realize if I’m successful, we’re going to start the process of regaining control of our cities.
The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses’ cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force.
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many South American countries without ushering in disaster.
We’re at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.
I saw the Blair-Mandelson regime as a coup, and I think it was a well-funded coup as well – resources obviously came from big private-sector backers. But all through that period the bulk of the rank and file party were what the party has always been, a socialist party.
The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.
What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.
And I’m asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I’ve said before, from becoming a socialist nation.
I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word ‘socialist,’ get very, very nervous.
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
And I don’t want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.
You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions.
I am still a socialist. I am a left-of-center politician. I believe that in Africa, if you see the poverty around us, you can’t afford to be anything else.
Everyone’s goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us.
All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.
Nothing could be more contrary to American values than the mob-like mentality and socialist precepts pushed by the far left. They seek nothing less than the complete destruction of the basis on which America was founded.
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
I was brought up a working-class Tory. I believe, to be a true socialist, you have to be a capitalist first. In my heart, I’m a socialist; in my mind, I’m a capitalist.
This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk – across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it’s not John McDonnell’s bitter socialist hooch. It’s a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world – free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
While no famine has ever taken place in a democracy, they’re the rule rather than the exception in socialist countries.
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.
