Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy.

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.

I believe in nationalizing those public necessities which by their very nature are too important to be held in the control of private individuals. By these I mean banking, credit and currency, power, light, oil and natural gas and our God-given natural resources.

Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy.

Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!

There are social democrats and others who are marching more in the direction of equality, whether you call them socialists or communists... Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

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

Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an ideology based on allocating economic resources. It may try to achieve that goal by nationalizing assets, by command-and-control regulation, or by taxation and redistribution.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

I've said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Labour Party, be very clear about its social democratic roots and its social democratic agenda.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

Socialism can also practice market economy.

We are all socialists now.

A due regard for individual property rights does not preclude assigning the state its share in national resources.

If anyone says that American socialism isn't possible, point them toward the bowling shoe.

I guess I'm a socialist at heart.

Sometimes you have to invest in people to get the best out of them. To me, that is socialism. That is why I'm a Labour member rather than a Conservative.

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.