Margaret Thatcher Quotes

There is no bridge, no way of gradual transition between the Communist and the Individualist points of view. These are two sets of mutually antagonistic and irreconcilable ideas.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

Our battle is against the bourgeoisie as the enemy of German Socialism and the saboteur of national freedom.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Leftist things have done terrible harm to our party in the past … Socialism may be ruined by rightism and may also be ruined by leftism. China must guard against rightism but should mainly guard against leftism.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

A young man under twenty-five who is not a Socialist has no heart, one above twenty-five who remains a Socialist has no head.

In time the Democratic party will fade away and we will have a capitalistic party and a socialistic party.

In the political panorama I can see only the formation of Marxist and anti-Marxist groups.

Conservatism, by all means, if there is anything worth conserving, and everything not worth losing. Revolution, if there is nothing worth conserving, and everything worth gaining. These are the class lines upon which the political battle is being fought, and is bound to be fought

Individualism and Socialism

The conflict between communism and freedom is the problem of our time. It overshadows all other problems.

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.

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

Many of the most privilege-conscious see capitalism as an evil economic regime and think of freedom only as a propaganda term thrown about by neoconservatives. To them, capitalism is the bogeyman hiding behind all of our societal ills, and freedom is an ideal used purely to justify global abuse. If someone lives in a country graced by low levels of poverty, legitimate democratic elections, and a press that publicizes the plight of the governed, yet they wish to abolish markets and live in something more akin to a Communist state, they should check their privilege.

Politically at that time, with Thatcher in Britain and Reagan in the White House, it wasn't looking too great for the Left. And we were always on the left.

True American Liberalism utterly denies the whole creed of socialism.

In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.

The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.