This includes quotes by the key socialist thinkers according to the Pearson Edexcel A-level Politics specification, It is divided into different themes (Human nature, The state, the economy and society)
Socialism Quote Bank
Human Nature
Type Person Quote
Revolutionary Karl Marx ‘The human being is in the
most literal sense a political
animal’
‘It is absolutely impossible
to transcend the laws of
nature’
Revolutionary Beatrice Webb ‘Nature still obstinately
refuses to cooperate by
making the rich people
innately superior to the
poor people’
‘self interested nature of
workers control’ rejected
democracy
Revolutionary Rosa Luxembourg ‘The mass strike is the first
natural, impulsive form of
every great revolutionary
struggle of the proletariat’
Third way Anthony Giddens ‘The concept of isolated
individualism is a construct
of the bourgeois philosophy
of individualism and serves
to conceal the social
character which production
always manifests’
The state
Type Person Quote
Revolutionary Karl Marx ‘The executive is nothing
but a committee for
managing the common
affairs of the whole
bourgeoisie’
‘Withering away of the
state’
Revolutionary Beatrice Webb ‘silently changed its
character from police power
to housekeeping on a
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