Country Quote by Joseph Stalin

“In the heat of the battle, all internal barriers break down; the puppet bourgeoisie of businessmen and shopkeepers, the urban proletariat, which is always…

— Jean-Paul Sarte

“Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us overthrowing the ruling classes with all the brutality…

— Rosa Luxemburg

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

— Vladimir Lenin

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the…

— Nikita Khrushchev

For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of…

— Leon Trotsky

The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result…

— C. L. R. James

We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership…

— Mao Zedong

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor;…

— Vladimir Lenin

In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long…

— Mao Zedong

“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of…

— Karl Marx

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

— Aneurin Bevan

“Modem Socialism developed when profound observers of social life came to see more and more clearly that political constitutions and changes in the form…

— Rudolf Rocker