Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state and you may have loyalty in your favor.
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention saved the myth.
I don't think socialism and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.
It is already clear after twenty years of socialism in Russia that if you do not provide your society with a new religion it will gradually revert to the old one.
Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.
As with the Christian religion the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Capitalism is war socialism is peace.
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.