William Morris Quotes

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other spots, no one in the world today would define socialism that way. That will never come back.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

The goal of socialism is communism.

There are now only a few countries following the socialist ways. We are one of these.

We must live under absolute communism.

I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

Communism is the basis of all sociality and it's the basis of cooperation.

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work!

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

Socialism is a dead horse.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Communism is nonsense.

What is the difference between Capitalism and Communism? Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the opposite.

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