Maxine Peake Quotes

Those who are today beating the drum loudest for the ‘Labor Party’ are radicals of various Marxist or pseudo-Marxist groups. These same people will tell you that they believe in the class struggle and economic action by the workers. Some will explain that parliamentary action is only a gimmick to gain a public forum, or free time on television every four years

Ever since I left college, my political interests have been centered in the work of the Communist Party …. My poetry has contained social implications that can be resolved only by the success of the Communist Party.

Ralph Bunch is a well known communist who has been sent to corrupt the Secretariat of the United Nations.

People joined the Communist Party because it was doing something. It was fighting Fascism.

A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

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

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Most of them are military commanders, country notables and landowners, and educated people. It is inconceivable that such a group should incline to the theory of Communism. But if Western countries persist in applying unjust pressure, they may well throw themselves into Russia’s arms.

It is impossible for any political party of "Labor" to reach power without concessions to the Right--to the middle class--at the expense of basic principles. "Labor" (or "Socialist") parties lose their identity and eventually are found to differ only on minor points from the "conservative" contenders for power. Labor Partyism is class-collaboration in the political field and it is just as disastrous for the workers as class-collaboration has been in the economic field

In a situation like that obtaining in Germany, I can only conceive a political general strike as a unique event in which the entire proletariat throughout the nation engages with all its might, as a life-and-death struggle, one in which our adversary is beaten down or else all our organizations, all our strength shattered or at least paralysed for years to come

Why does the great body of workingmen still permit itself to be ruled and exploited by the capitalists? Why are they not in a position to drive the minority of exploiters from power? Because they are an unorganized, undisciplined, individualistic and ignorant mass. The majority is impotent because it consists of a divided crowd of individuals each one of whom wishes to act according to his own impulse, regard his own interests.

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

It is hard to build a communist state while reformers are slandering socialism, destroying its values, discrediting the party and liquidating its leading role, doing away with social discipline, and sowing chaos and anarchy everywhere.

Voting for socialism is not socialism any more than a menu is a meal.... Of far greater importance is the economic organization of the working class.

In the end, one or the other will triumph—a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet Republic or over world capitalism.

In the end a funeral requiem will be sung over the Soviet Republic or over world capitalism. As long as capitalism remains we cannot live in peace. In the end one or the other will triumph.

The existence of the: Soviet Republic, side by side with the imperialist states for a long time is unthinkable. One or the other must triumph in the end.

There is no room for communists in Kenya.