“It (socialism) survived long enough to show what was in it: tyranny, namely, and that new perfection of tyranny, the totalitarian state.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
“The struggle is still for freedom; the main facts are still economic; the arch-enemy is still the soft-headed idealist who refuses to face facts.” ~Max Eastman
"These oversoulful people have not wanted to deny science or deprive themselves of its benefits, but neither have they wanted to commit themselves to its methods of acquiring knowledge..." ~Max Eastman
"In the mind of the Marxist, dialectic is the 'leader of all knowledge' and 'holds the primacy and rule of all philosophy,' and of science ,too..." ~Max Eastman
"A false and undeliberated conception of what man is lies at the bottom, I think, of the whole bubble-castle of socialist theory..." ~Max Eastman