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“It is not national interests we are upholding - we claim that the interests of socialism, the interests of world socialism, rank higher than national interests, higher than the interests of the state. We are defenders of the socialist fatherland.”

World States Interest Higher Claims Socialism Socialist Defenders National Interests Fatherland

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.”

Ifs Firsts Mean Country States United United States Definitions Productions Socialism Defined Orthodox Ownership Socialist Socialist Countries

Book:The Pension Fund Revolution

Source: The Pension Fund Revolution

“The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.”

“Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.”

Men States Liberty Concern Aim Socialism Streams Anarchy Exploitation Socialist Components Anarchism Anarchist Haste Abolish Synonym

Book:Anarchism; from theory to practice

Source: Anarchism; from theory to practice

“The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.”

“As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks.”

States Problem Responsibility Serious Equal Unions International Peaceful Cooperation Soviet Continents Socialist Soviet Union Beneficial Constructive Settlement Strengthening

Book:Soviet-U.S. relations: the selected writings and speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko

Source: Soviet-U.S. relations: the selected writings and speeches of Konstantin U. Chernenko

“Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.”

“But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.”

World Country States Facts Speak Forget Known Minutes Danger Victory Remains Our Country Germany Collectives Farmers Concrete Socialist Threatened One Minute Greatest Victory

Author:Mikhail Kalinin

“Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states, they disobey them.”

Humans States Animal Moral Program Socialist

Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke