Socialism quotes Flashcards
Marx quotes
“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.”
“Democracy is the road to socialism”.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
‘While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser’
Webb quotes
‘There is no excuse for depressive inaction. There is no cause for listless despondency. A better tomorrow is conceivable, achievable and probable.’
‘The humble should be made mightier and the might made humbler.
‘We do not have faith in the “average sensual man”, we do not believe that he can do more than describe his grievances, we do not think that he can prescribe the remedies’
Luxemburg quotes
‘Our instinct is not to win but to share… and should we be fortunate enough to be on the winning side, our ultimate instinct is to share the fruits of victory with others.’
‘Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of the press and assembly; without a free struggle of opinion, life dies in every institution’
Crosland quotes
‘We cannot separate ourselves from the sort of society we have. Our perspectives, our prospects, our very personalities, are affected by the society we are born into.’
‘It is difficult to redistribute wealth if there is no wealth to redistribute… and to ensure wealth we need the engine of private enterprise.’
‘If it’s the last thing I do, I’m going to destroy every *** grammar school in England. And in Wales and Northern Ireland’
‘Marx had little or nothing to offer the contemporary socialist’
Giddens quotes
‘Investment in education is an imperative of government today, a key basis of the distribution of possibilities’
‘Globalisation “pulls away” from the nation state in the sense that some powers nations used to possess, including those that underlay Keynesian economic management, have been weakened’
The state needed to ‘ promote investment in education and infrastructure’
‘Unemployment benefits…. should carry the obligation to actively look for work, and it is up to governments to ensure that the welfare system does not discourage an active search’
