After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Now, quite apart from the fact that, from the point of view of the Earther, socialism suffers the devastating liability of only exhibiting internal contradictions when you are trying to use it as an adjunct...

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in...

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become...

In 1987 Senator Jesse Helms, stated “it is no secret that the international bankers profiteer form sovereign state debt. The New York banks have found important profit centers in lending to countries plunged into debt...

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.”Thorkild aka ‘Borge’The Informer by...

Right now I’m thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It’s a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy – and it...

I think it’s wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life– as if life could be put off for a time– what nonsense! The revolution broke out willy-nilly...

The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made of the historical phenomenon of the “appearance” of industrialism and mechanisation in huge areas...

We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla is a social reformer, who takes up arms responding to the angry protests of the people against their oppressors, and who fights to change the...

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind … when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal...

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can’t because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million...

And of course the World needs more love, but we need to be clear on what form that love will take. Sometimes love requires killing its object, to put it out of its misery or...

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich.

Marx made theory… Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization… And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed...

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that’s a wonderful thing.

My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it...

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

There is in everywhere, a mild tiny dark called shadow and severally it is usually hidden, denied, masked even cursed and ran from but sometimes it finds a way to gleam. That America is a...

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..

State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes...

It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious...

Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.

It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Deep pockets and empty hearts rule the world. We unleash them at our peril.

You will never find peace with these fascistsYou’ll never find friends such as weSo remember that valley of JaramaAnd the people that’ll set that valley free.From this valley they say we are goingDo not hasten...

You rich people are all the same. You couldn’t care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn’t capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.

Individuals start to see themselves reflected in their work and to understand their full status as human beings through the object created, through the work accomplished. Work no longer entails surrendering a part of one’s...

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is...

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also...

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.