Samuel West Quotes

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.

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

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

I certainly am socialistic, but I am not a socialist

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

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

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

I've never said I'm a communist.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

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.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

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 difference between the Socialists and the Communists is that … the Communists mean it.

I am against the use of capitalist mechanisms to build socialism.

There is little real difference between the Socialist Party and the Communists

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?