Slave State
“The best of the ‘Socialist Liberals’ are leading us inthe direction of the slave state only because they have the idea of a fixed destination, and don’t know where else to find it.”
~ Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
Monopoly on Armed Force
“The state occupies a special position in society because it has a monopoly on armed force, but that only makes it more vital that it should not be sacrosanct. Not only must the power of the government be limited by law if the citizens are to be free, but it must be limited by other powers. It must be regarded as but one of those social forces upon whose equilibrium a free society depends.”
~ Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
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Social Welfare
“Yearning to do good and obsessed by the power of the state to do it, relieved by this power of their age-old feeling of futility, they are destroying, in the name of social welfare, the foundations of freedom.”
~ Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
State Planned Economy
“We must arm our minds now against the less obvious, the more strong and plausible and patriotic enemies of freedom, the advocates of a state planned economy.”
~ Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
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No Dialectic Logic
“There is no dialectic logic. There are no higher thought forms. There is merely reflection which is wise enough to take account of the fluidity of its subject matter, reflection which understands that terms are not things, nor copies of things, and keeps coming back to things and making new judgements in proportion as the change requires it.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism: Is it Science? Trotsky Defends the Faith
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Religious Scholasticism
“A demonstration that Marxism has all the defining attributes of a religion would be incomplete without a warning against its own peculiar brand of scholasticism.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism: Is it Science? Trotsky Defends the Faith
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Sickening Discipline
“Our civilization is in peril because so many eager and uncritical minds, beguiled by the communist ideal, instead of being trained in virtue, are trained to renounce all moral standards in the service of their ideal. Those consecrating themselves to communism must not only cast out truth, mercy, justice, and personal honor, but undergo a sickening discipline in lies, cruelty, crime and self abasement.”
~Max Eastman
Foreward to The Whole of Their Lives by Benjamin Gitlow
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Revolutionary Dictatorship
“The Marxist method is to accentuate the class struggle between workers and capitalists, organize it both nationally and internationally, and carry it forward…in full consciousness of the ruthlessness of the forces at play, to the goal of a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science? The Practical Hypothesis in Marxism
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Society is One?
“Marx is concerned to defend the concept of society as a single ‘object, reality, sensibility,’ having the character which all objects have–namely, that of self-active practicality.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, is it Science?
Officialdom Gone Mad
“Officialdom gone mad, officialdom erected into a new and merciless exploiting class; the largest peace-time standing army in the world; the people universally disarmed; the functions of control and superintendence gripped in the fist of a ruling clique which, when needful, wages armed war on the people.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
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