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Socialism

Gus Hall — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:31:44 +0000

“Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.”

Oil Companies Watch Out!

Hillary Clinton — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:24:25 +0000

“We’ll take on the oil companies and harness their record profits to create millions of clean energy jobs — high-wage jobs you can raise a family on. I’ll end their special tax breaks and give them a choice: invest some of your profits in alternative energy , or we’ll do it for you.”

‘Loudmouth Lefty’ Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:36:34 +0000

“I’m super, super loudmouth lefty. I’m so far left I’m not even a Democrat anymore…I’m a Sandinista.”

Capitalism is the problem; socialism is the solution.

John Bellamy Foster — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:01:43 +0000

“[T]he problem is capitalism. [T]he only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time [March 2005], is socialism.”

Socialism is our salvation.

Jean Paul Sartre — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:52:39 +0000

“To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp.”

Praise for Mikhail Gorbachev.

Ted Turner — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:03:00 +0000

“Gorbachev has probably moved more quickly than any person in the history of the world. Moving faster than Jesus Christ did. America is always lagging six months behind.”

Use environmentalism to achieve socialism.

Havel Wolf — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:11:16 +0000

“The Communist Party USA’s environmental program “presents a viable plan to carry out on the long march to socialism.”

Embrace socialism to save the environment.

Gus Hall — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:16:50 +0000

“Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.”

Children should not think for themselves.

John Dewey — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 18:28:26 +0000

“You can’t make Socialists out of individualists — children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming, where everyone is interdependent.”

Americans will accept socialism.

Norman Thomas — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:34:11 +0000

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened.”