Daniel Hannan Quotes

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what, they call socialism.

What did the workers and peasants gain when power passed from the kings and nobles to the bankers and manufacturers?

Entire sections of the ruling classes are, by the advance of industry, precipitated into the proletariat, or are at least threatened in their conditions of existence. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress.

The struggle against imperialism develops ever more into the decisive struggle between capital and labor.

The collectivizations and socializations in the economy count for nothing when State power is in the hands of the bourgeoisie.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

We are unalterably opposed to any class government, whether it be the existing dictatorship of the plutocracy or the dictatorship of the proletariat. Both are essentially undemocratic and un-American. Both are destructive of private initiative liberty.

We socialists live to some extent in symbiosis with capitalism.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system …. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence; it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.

Taken as a whole, the work of Marx, at the same times it shows the thesis of the growing pauperization of the non-propertied classes, relativizes it when contemplating the possibility that the class struggles result in distributive effects.

Globalism is a scheme for impoverishing First World labor and taking power and influence from the hands of the many and putting them in the hands of the few.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.