Classless Society Quotes

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

The goal of socialism is communism.

Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders.

The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat ... [is a] state that is democratic for the proletariat and the poor in general.

Socialism is not merely the labor question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism today., the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to Heaven from earth but to set up Heaven on Earth

Superior ability is not the exclusive possession of any one race or any one class.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

Communism … is not a stale state …. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things.

Socialism is communism without the firing squad.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

We are in a crisis of political comportment. We are witnessing the rise of the classless. Our politicians are becoming degenerate. This has been happening for a while but gets worse as the country coarsens. We are defining deviancy ever downward.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Socialism is humanity's second nature. All politicians do is turn human vice into votes.

There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

[Jesus] organized a working class movement ... for no other purpose than to destroy class rule and set up the common people as the sole and rightful inheritors of the earth.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

The uncertainty of Socialists themselves concerning the organization of the society they are wishing for, paralyses their energy