“I have learned from Stalin’s Russia and Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy how much infantile and primitive savage yearning for dependence, for external authority, for the sovereign-father, there is in the average human heart.” ~Max Eastman
“Not only is there no such thing as dialectic thinking, but there is no such superintellectual knowledge of the exact nature of the universe as that to which an alleged dialectic thinking pretends to give access.” ~Max Eastman
“We Socialists were, I think, profoundly wrong to ignore the depth and generality of the drive toward property, and therefore exchange of property, in man.” ~Max Eastman
“my socialist convictions grew hard and firm. It took a long time after that, a steady and merciless bombardment of hostile and unanswerable facts, to unsettle them.” ~Max Eastman
“There is no intellectual question of more importance to the future of American culture than the question whether we are going to conduct our social efforts in the name of science, or are going to swallow down this romantic philosophy” ~Max Eastman
“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
“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
“A false and undeliberated conception of what man is lies at the bottom, I think, of the whole bubble-castle of socialist theory…” ~Max Eastman
