Socialism

Socialism encompasses theories of collective ownership and economic democracy. From Owen and Saint-Simon to Marx and Gramsci, socialist thinkers have profoundly influenced politics, economics, and social thought.

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"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."

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George Orwell· b. 1903View quote →

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"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."

🇺🇸Cornel West

"Justice is what love looks like in public."

🇺🇸Sharon Smith (writer)

"is not simply a women's issue, but also a racial issue in U.S. society."

"You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields"

🇬🇧Eric Hobsbawm

"o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so."

Charles Fourier

🇫🇷Charles Fourier

"All repressed passion produces its counter-passion which is as malevolent as the natural passion would be beneficial."

🇺🇸Angela Davis

"Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people from poor, immigrant and racially marginalized communities has literally become big business."

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."

G. D. H. Cole

🇬🇧G. D. H. Cole

"A society that acquiesces in the presence in its midst of a vast permanent army of unemployed is a society that has ceased to believe in itself."

Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley

"If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love."

🇪🇸Antonio Llidó

"Antonio Llidó Association website A collection of published articles on about Chile and Llidó."

Anthony Crosland

🇬🇧Anthony Crosland

"I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form."

🇺🇸Jane Addams

Social Activism

"must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy."

🇺🇸Bayard Rustin

Social Activism

"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."

"Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty."

🇺🇸Oskar R. Lange

"Human needs, although originally derived from biological necessity, are thus a result of the existence of society and are conditioned by the stage of development which society has reached."

🇩🇪Moses Hess

"He who wishes to study the barometric level of spiritual freedom must examine the relationship of the state to its Jewish subjects."

🇺🇸Max Eastman

"Marxists profess to reject religion in favor of science, but they cherish a belief that the external universe is evolving with reliable, if not divine, necessity in exactly the direction in which they want to go."

Alexander Herzen

🇷🇺Alexander Herzen

"An empire that cannot distance itself from such a gruesome sin that so deeply affects its internal structure does not have the right to education, to future development and participation in history."

Marielle Franco

🇧🇷Marielle Franco

"“It is not by chance that when arriving in the favelas the police quickly hoist a flag as a signal of territorial control. That is because these territories are seen … as the enemy’s territory."

🇺🇸Hal Draper

Social Activism

Social Activism

"If you see something that's wrong, you've got to do something about it."

Timothy Quill

"The real trouble is that money and money power now exceed their rightful use, to serve as a medium of exchange."

🇺🇸Adin Ballou

Social Activism

🇺🇸Gloria La Riva

🇺🇸Stuart Chase

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

🇺🇸Woody Guthrie

"Woody Guthrie" by Steve Earle in The Nation"

🇨🇳Deng Xiaoping

"If you open a window for fresh air, you have to expect some flies to blow in."

Notable Quotes

"It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle ... There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for."

— George Orwell, b. 1903View →

"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."

— George Orwell, b. 1903View →

"When you have no money your life is one long series of snubs."

— George Orwell, b. 1903View →

"I have already indicated that I believe antisemitism to be essentially a neurosis, but of course it has its rationalisations, which are sincerely believed in and are partly true. The rationalisation put forward by the common man is that the Jew is an exploiter."

— George Orwell, b. 1903View →

"The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits 'atrocities' but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future."

— George Orwell, b. 1903View →

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