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So long as production is left to the uncontrolled decisions of private individuals, conducted, guided and inspired by the motive of profit, so long will Poverty, Insecurity and Injustice continue.

— Hugh Gaitskell

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It must be admitted that politically communism is the same [as fascism].

The success of the middle class alliance depended on the acceptance by the working class element of middle class leadership and middle class ideas.

Chartism: An Introductory Essay (1929)

Socialists should understand that it is their duty to do anything in their power directly or indirectly to assist the revolutionary opposition within fascist countries.

Fascism has become the last defence of a crumbling economic system. It is the last bulwark of Capitalism.

Notes for Lecturers to the LLY [Labour League of Youth (1938)

I was a witness of two civil wars and their ghastly and tragic consequences, and I learnt, as never before, to value the freedom of British political traditions.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

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If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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