819 Quotes About Socialism

Socialism always begins with a universal vision for the brotherhood of man and ends with people having to eat their own pets.

America is a third world country. Trailer parks are America's favelas.

Choosing between capitalism and socialism to run the world is like choosing between man and woman to run the world. These choices may have been relevant in the old days, but in a civilized world they are absolutely meaningless.

Part of the core socialist commitment involves insisting on pressing forward even when you're being told your goals are unachievable.

One cannot walk with just the left foot or just the right foot, one needs both.

The vast majority of South Africans, almost all of whom are black, almost always—if not always—attribute to Apartheid, the side effects of capitalism. (And that makes them very unlikely to question capitalism, let alone strive for its abandonment.)

Debates on housing policy have denigrated into shouting matches merely about ethics, values and rights. Polarised debates where socialism is regarded glorious and capitalism disastrous.

These days even mere attempts to improve capitalism are often called ‘Socialism,’ while in reality they are only reforms.

Communism is not an ideal to be realised: it already exists, not as alternative lifestyles, autonomous zones or counter-communities that would grow within this society and ultimately change it into another one, but as an effort, a task to prepare for. It is the movement which tries to abolish the conditions of life determined by wage-labour, and it will abolish them only by revolution.