Socialism Quotes
The names at the top make a strange group: Joseph Goebbels, Mussolini, Thatcher, Orwell and George Fitzhugh. Some come from the Nazi movement, which called itself socialist, and some from opponents. For reading, go to the sourced lines instead. H. L. Mencken, in A Little Book in C Major (1916), defines socialism as the theory that one man’s desire for what he hasn’t got is more pleasing to a just God than another’s desire to keep what he has. Solzhenitsyn, at Harvard in 1978, was blunter about it.
Three entries are flagged. “Democracy is the road to socialism,” credited to Karl Marx, is disputed. A line about no longer knowing what socialism is, credited to Deng Xiaoping, is marked misattributed, and the notes say it concerned the French Revolution and was actually said by Zhou Enlai. A claim that National Socialism is based on Marx is credited to Hitler and also marked misattributed.
It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.
National Socialism did not make men unfree; unfreedom made men National Socialists.
There’s no problem mixing style with socialism - Fidel Castro was stylish!"
Adolf Hitler is National Socialism, just as National Socialism is Adolf Hitler.
“Socialism would come through African unity and vice versa”.
The social is a stopgap. Socialism is the ideology of the future.