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
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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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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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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Belief in Fantasy
“The belief that such a millennium could be brought into being by ‘some combination of lawyers, business and labor managers, politicians and intellectuals,’ is hard to take seriously.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
Russian Revolution
“The Russian revolution is perhaps the greatest tragedy in human history, terrible in the breadth of its impact, terrible in the depth of its significance, terrible in its personal details.”
~Max Eastman
Stalin’s Russia and the Crisis in Socialism
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Bureaucratic Socializers
“It is the bureaucratic socializers—if I may devise that label for the champions of a lawyer-manager-politician-intellectual revolution—who constitute a real and subtle threat to America’s democracy.”
~Max Eastman
Reflections on the Failure of Socialism
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