Ernst Toller Quotes

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism.

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

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 was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.

Overthrow the capitalist class.

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

Ever since I left college, my political interests have been centered in the work of the Communist Party …. My poetry has contained social implications that can be resolved only by the success of the Communist Party.

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

The Socialist movement is the abolitionist movement of the 20th century.

Socialism has not struck root very deeply in the United States, the very heart of the capitalist world, and that the workers there have not yet succeeded in organizing an independent political party on the English model.

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

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

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

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

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

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

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

Every year humanity takes a step towards Communism. Maybe not you, but … your grandson will surely be a Communist.

Those who are today beating the drum loudest for the ‘Labor Party’ are radicals of various Marxist or pseudo-Marxist groups. These same people will tell you that they believe in the class struggle and economic action by the workers. Some will explain that parliamentary action is only a gimmick to gain a public forum, or free time on television every four years