Socialism
State Prison
“Instead of liberating the mind of man, the Bolshevik Revolution locked it into a state’s prison tighter than ever before.” ~Max Eastman
Communism
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Socialism
Scientific Experiment?
“It was juvenile of me to imagine that humanity as a whole, especially by splitting itself into two halves, could turn a whole period of history into a scientific experiment.” ~Max Eastman
Tyranny
Phony Elections
“The phony elections in totalitarian countries, the ballots with only one party and one list of candidates, are not the mere tricks of a cynical dictator—they are intrinsic to a state-planned economy.” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Practical Thinking
“If Marx had understood the art of practical thinking, Das Kapital might have been as great a book as the Hegelian Marxists think it is.” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Who Was Socialist?
“Do not forget that Stalin was a socialist. Mussolini was a socialist. Hundreds of thousands of the followers of Hitler were socialists…” ~Max Eastman
Marxism
Superscientific
Marxism “is superscientific, metaphysical–religious in the truest sense of the term. It is a scheme for reading the ideal purpose of the communists…” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Resistance to Tyranny
“Almost everyone who cares earnestly about freedom is aroused against the Communists. But it is not only the Communists, it is in a more subtle way the Socialists who are blocking the efforts of the free world…”
~Max Eastman
Socialism
Socialist Hypothesis
“If the socialist hypothesis were valid in general, some tiny shred of the benefits promised by it would have appeared when the Russian capitalists were expropriated and production taken over by the state…” ~Max Eastman
Marxism
Front Organization
“It was Marx, not Lenin, who invented the technique of the “front organization,” the device of pretending to be a democrat in order to destroy democracy, the ruthless purging of dissident party members…”
~Max Eastman
Religion
A New Religion
“In Das Kapital…the force which guarantees the evolution of capitalism to the point of rupture, and the creation of a communist state, is that same…which Hegel laid on the whole Universe in the name of God.”
~Max Eastman