Socialist Principles Quotes

I certainly am socialistic, but I am not a socialist

We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.

If ... the taking over the tobacco trade by the state was socialistic, Napoleon and Metternich would rank among the founders of Socialism.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.

I guess I'm a socialist at heart.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Comandante Fidel Castro loves Cuba! But his love for humanity, if you'll pardon the expression, trumped his love for Cuba: He was universal; he was an internationalist, and he put that spirit in the hearts and minds of the Cuban people through the Cuban Revolution.

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

Some people say to me, "My God, but Fidel Castro is a communist!" I say: "No, he was a messenger of God."

Kim Il Sung University is the central base for training national cadres and the highest institute of Juche-based science and education.

It's not my fault if reality is Marxist

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and communism is started by the leader and is carried out under the guidance of the party and the leader.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.