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
Tyranny
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Socialism
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
Marxism
On Karl Marx
“If he (Karl Marx) ever performed a generous act, it is not to be found in the record. He was a totally undisciplined, vain, slovenly, and egotistical spoiled child.” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Bureaucratism
“The chief enemy of the effort to make society more free and equal through any kind of organization is bureaucratism.” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
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
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
Socialism
Yearning for Dependence
“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
Tyranny
The Crime of Socrates
“The crime of Socrates was deeper than disobedience to the laws of the state. It was disobedience to the laws of animistic thinking.” ~Max Eastman
Tyranny
Promised Enlightened Interests
“The backers of Hitler in Germany made the same mistake about the Nazi party that the workers and soldiers in Petrograd made about the Bolshevik party…” ~Max Eastman
Tyranny
Totalitarian State
“An armed seizure of power by a highly organized minority party…will normally lead to the totalitarian state. ‘Totalitarian state’ is merely the modern name for tyranny.” ~Max Eastman