Earl Browder Quotes

Every class struggle is a political struggle

… a policy of slashing the living standards at home and fighting for market share abroad for the single purpose of maintaining the profits of finance capital … Roosevelt is carrying out more thoroughly and brutally than even Hoover the capitalist attack on the living standards of the masses …

As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These “humanitarian parts” are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its “antirent and anticapital parts,” means to get rid of the poodle..

However illusionary the beliefs and doctrines of traditional European Socialism, it reflects therefore genuine social and political tensions.

No great revolution can happen in a state without revolutions or mutations of private property.

Under all circumstances the main task of the working class is the overthrow of the capitalists in its own country.

Regardless of the degree of class consciousness of their members, the trade unions are, by their very nature, driven on to the revolutionary goal.

The masses of the working-people of Scotland have read history, and are no revolutionary levelers.

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

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

The big policy wins of the New Deal were actually offered as compromises. Because the alternative seemed to be revolution.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York.

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

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

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

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.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.