#socialist

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

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A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'. ↗

— John McCarthy

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Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. ↗

— John McCarthy

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