Bertrand Russell Quotes
While I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race.
Russell, Bertrand. Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism. Henry Holt and Company, 1919, p. x.
This was the basic document issued after the Russian Revolution establishing the basic legal and economic structure of the new Soviet State. In one of the great ironies, the Communist state forced people to work, while the capitalistic United States and most of the European Countries so this as an invasion of rights and even provided welfare and other assistance to those who did not work as well as to others.
Vladimir Lenin. Some anti-democratic, rabid opponents of communism used this quotation to argue that democracy was just a step on the way to Communism and thus democracy was a part of the communist conspiracy—an extreme form of Red Scare.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. Bertrand Russell was one of the most influential and widely known intellectual figures of the twentieth century. In 1950 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his extensive contributions to world literature and for his “rationality and humanity, as a fearless champion of free speech and free thought in the West.“
