« All Socialism Quotes · Mao Zedong's Page
Socialism Quotes by Mao Zedong
- Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality…
- New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all…
- It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that…
- The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.
- The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold…
- We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and…
- Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which…
- Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist…
- In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long historical…
- The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet Union's experience,…
- We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of…
- There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work…
- The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such…
- By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing up plans, handling…
- In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas,…
- Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may seem a bad…
- After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first…
- "Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism still exists, because…
- The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and…
- The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance…
More Socialism Quotes
- Socialism means slavery. — Lord Acton
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat
- Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share. — Lewis Black
- I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people… — Lewis Black
- I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come. — John Burns
- They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? — Fidel Castro
- I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism. — Hugo Chavez
- The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has… — Hugo Chavez
- The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here. — Hugo Chavez
- We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the… — Hugo Chavez