Socialist Reconstruction Quotes

“When we are constantly worried about losing our jobs; constantly worried about making rent; constantly worried about making it to the end of the month; constantly worried about a medical emergency that could wipe us out; constantly worried about fires, floods, and weather extremes; we aren’t free.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“Capitalism can’t provide a solution to the climate crisis because capitalism is the crisis: capitalist production always and necessarily places profit over people and the planet.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“In a way, this protectionism is already a kind of socialism, but it’s socialism for the rich. What we need is socialism led by the working class for the benefit of society as a whole.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“anti-socialist and even right-wing groups are more likely to emerge as the beneficiaries of the accelerating contradictions of capitalism, since their “solutions” have been more widely in circulation and deemed “respectable.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“Imperialist debt policies have hit African countries especially hard, coercing these countries into cutting public services and repaying banks exorbitant amounts before taking care of their own citizens. On average, African countries spend more paying interest on their debts than they do on much-needed doctors and clinics.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“Constitutional and legal recognition of voluntary mass organizations such as unions, tenant organizations, cooperatives, and youth groups is the form of this empowerment.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“You can’t kill an idea whose time has come.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“Only the Soviet Union escaped the Great Depression during the 1930s. While the major capitalist economies saw tens of millions of workers suddenly lose employment (the unemployment rate in the US was 25 percent in 1932), the planned economy in the USSR experienced massive growth.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“The memory of socialism and its immense contribution to progressive struggles for social and economic rights inside the United States was essentially extinguished—or so horribly distorted for the six decades after the end of World War II that very few people alive today have any awareness of socialism’s role in US history.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“Relying on public money to fund private capital accumulation is standard operating procedure under capitalism.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States

“The very experience of work will change as people have more control over their working conditions.”
― Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States