John Lennon Quotes

A populist is someone who sees politics from an economic perspective rather than an ideological perspective. I’m a populist. The only thing that really matters is who is gets screwed and who is doing the screwing.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

We are not communists.

I've never said I'm a communist.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

All systems of political administration or governmental machinery are but the reflex of the economic forms which underlie them

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

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.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

To you, workers of Ireland, we address ourselves. AGITATE in the workshop, in the field, in the factory, until you arouse your brothers to hatred of the slavery of which we are all the victims. EDUCATE, that the people may no longer be deluded by illusory hopes of prosperity under any system of society of which monarchs or noblemen, capitalists or landlords form an integral part. ORGANIZE, that a solid, compact and intelligent force, conscious of your historic mission as a class, you may seize the reins of political power whenever possible and, by intelligent application of the working-class ballot, clear the field of action for the revolutionary forces of the future.

Pat Buchanan ... could give Karl Marx lessons in class warfare.

Actually I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.

A London retail tradesman with the aims of a Napoleon! A queer monstrosity to be justified only by success. And above all a loop-hole into the socialist party; one of the small body of men with whom I may sooner or later throw in my lot for good and all.