Achieve Quote by Leon Trotsky

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

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

— Joseph Stalin

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

— Ernest Mandel

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of…

— Simone Weil

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

If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We have to re-invent socialism. It can’t be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as…

— Hugo Chavez

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary…

— Vladimir Lenin

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full…

— Leon Trotsky

I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And…

— Margaret Thatcher

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring…

— Vladimir Lenin