Howard Fast Quotes

If the American working people were as I would like them to be, they would all be socialists and I would be President.

We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people.

The socialist labor party of Germany endeavors by every lawful means to bring about a free state and a socialistic society, to effect the destruction of the iron law of wages by doing away with the system of wage labor, to abolish exploitation of every kind, and to extinguish all social and political inequality.

Socialism makes war upon a system not a class…. Labour should capture power, not destroy it.

Our objectives are socialist. That means an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

The Socialist group in the Chamber affirms .... that, in conformity with the fundamental thinking of the Socialists in all countries and with the tradition of French Socialism ever since the Revolution, it aims to abolish the capitalist system itself and to put an end to the exploitation of man by man, through the conquest of political power by the proletariat, through the substitution of social property for capitalist property, and through international agreement of the workers.

Well, what are you socialists going to do about me?

We shall now proceed to construct the socialist order.

Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism …

We should not work to destroy the capitalist system of production without establishing at the same time a socialist organization that can produce goods at least as efficiently.

I'm a socialist.

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

I'm a very friendly socialist.

It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.