Socialism
Perfection of Tyranny
“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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Thoroughgoing Socialism
“Either phony elections or no elections at all—that is what thoroughgoing socialism will mean, no matter who brings it in—hard-headed Bolsheviks, soft-headed Social Democrats, or genteel liberals.” ~Max Eastman
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Fairy Tale
“We are still beguiled by this other fairy tale: that a group of liberal-minded reformers can take charge of the economy and approximate a free and equal society.” ~Max Eastman
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Animal Egoisms
“The crude animal egoisms of men and classes of men thus grab ideas and use them, not as heroic lights to action, but as blinds to hide inaction or actions that are too base.” ~Max Eastman
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States of Passion
“The most persistent and most threatening enemy of the scientific attitude is the disposition of men to think what they want to think, to bend the results, and pervert its authority, to the support of their purposes and states of passion.” ~Max Eastman
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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
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Socialist Religion
“Marxism was a step from utopian socialism to a socialist religion–a scheme for convincing the believer that the universe itself is producing a better society… ” ~Max Eastman
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Bureaucratism
“The chief enemy of the effort to make society more free and equal through any kind of organization is bureaucratism.” ~Max Eastman
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Socialist Dogma
“The separation of church and state is one of the main measures of protection against tyranny. But the Marxian religion makes this separation impossible…” ~Max Eastman
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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