Ross Douthat Quotes

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

All systems of political administration or governmental machinery are but the reflex of the economic forms which underlie them

The socialist or anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions is to be regarded as attacking the foundation upon which civilization itself rests.

… that veiled sister of communism – legalistic socialism

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

I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.

I never took it upon myself to change the world. And those contemporaries of mine who were going around falling for the idea that they were going to bring down the United States government and make a new world were just asses to me.

Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

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

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

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

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

I've never said I'm a communist.

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

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

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.