Ed Miliband Quotes

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Capitalism is so successful economically that it creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

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

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

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..

Am I allowed to suggest that we owe much to these stubborn and sectarian people, those indefatigable strikers who take over our factories and bring disorder to our streets, these obstinate creatures who ceaselessly fought for reforms while fantasizing of the Revolution, these Marxists who, marching against the current of History, disturbed the complacent sleep of capitalism? … Communism is dead. Let us rejoice.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

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

I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.

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

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

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

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

There's nothing pure about capitalism.