Robert McChesney Quotes

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

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

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..

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

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

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

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

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.

A Socialist Government cannot carry on a capitalist system better than the capitalists. The men bred by a capitalist system are men of affairs who understand their business. They are not apprentices.

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

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

The problem is capitalism. The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism.

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

Progressivism has time and again added the corrective that has enabled capitalism to survive.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

We socialists live to some extent in symbiosis with capitalism.

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system …. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

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

He (Aneurin Bevan) enjoys prophesying the imminent fall of the capitalist system, and is prepared to play a part, any part, in its burial, except that of mute.

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

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