David Lidington Quotes

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

Do not underestimate Jeremy Corbyn.

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

an out and out Socialist.

Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

Growing up with my father was like growing up with Jeremy Corbyn. He still hasn't rejoined the party; it's not left wing enough for him.

I'm a real left-winger. I fancy Jeremy Corbyn!

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

the president [Truman], all who seriously believe in a socialized state, every left wing organization in America and the Communist Party.

The difference between the Socialists and the Communists is that … the Communists mean it.

There is little real difference between the Socialist Party and the Communists

Seldes, although not a Communist of his own admission, is regarded as a close follower of Communist doctrines.

Many of those who helped to lay the foundations of the trade union movement were men who had been through the experience of Socialism and found their way to sounder policies.