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
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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
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State Religion
“Any state religion, as all the great liberals have pointed out, is death to human freedom.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
State Prison
“Instead of liberating the mind of man, the Bolshevik Revolution locked it into a state’s prison tighter than ever before. No flight of thought was conceivable, no poetic promenade even, no sneak through the doors or peep out of a window in this pre-Darwinian dungeon called Dialectic Materialism.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
The Totalitarian State
“It (socialism) survived long enough to show what was in it: tyranny, namely, and that new perfection of tyranny, the totalitarian state.”
~Max Eastman
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Totalitarian State
“An armed seizure of power by a highly organized minority party, whether in the name of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the Glory of Rome, the Supremacy of the Nordics, or any other slogan that may be invented, and no matter how ingeniously integrated with the masses of the population, will normally lead to the totalitarian state. ‘Totalitarian state’ is merely the modern name for tyranny.”
~Max Eastman
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