Alexander Dubcek Quotes

Long live socialism with a human face.

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

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

In order to do away with the parasitic classes of society and organize the economic life of the country, universal labor duty is introduced.

The people weren't quite ready for a socialist production system.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.

I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

As the news media eagerly report on polls showing that millennials increasingly reject capitalism, progressives energetically push the Democratic Party to the left.

I am going to attack income inequality and I think I have a pretty good plan to do so. I don't just tell you what I'm against. I tell you what I'm for and how I would do it.

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

Pressure of opinion a hundred years ago brought about the emancipation of the slaves'.

As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism is New Deal Liberalism. In fact, his actual policies would not have been a great surprise to General Eisenhower. The fact that this is called a "political revolution" is a sign of how far to the right the political spectrum has shifted, mainly in the last 30 years since the neoliberal programs began to be instituted. What he was calling for was a restoration of something like New Deal Liberalism, which is a very good thing.

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.