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'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

I am not a socialist.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

I don't believe this nation will elect a socialist.