"101 DAMNATIONS" SOURCES
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Jean Jaures. [«… ils hausseront leur volonté́ pour se débarrasser des classes parasites qui les épuisent et hausseront leur pensée pour ocialize avec toutes les forces de la science un travail plus fructueux et moins écrasant ils hausseront leur conscience pour échapper aux jalousies et aux défiances misérables qui les paralysent et pour substituer la combinaison des efforts et la ocialized paysanne au travail isolé.»] Socialisme et paysans – discours prononcés à la Chambre des ociali les 19, 26 juin et 3 juillet 1897 16.
Karl Kautsky. The Class Struggle (The Erfurt Program), trans. William Bonn (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1910) 146.
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Paul Lafargue. [«L'histoire démontre que tous les parasites ont leurs parasites. L'histoire corrobore le fait. Si les bourgeois sont les poux sociaux vivant sur la classe ouvrière, les domestiques de la bourgeoisie … qui partagent avec elle, les butins dérobes aux producteurs, sont les parasites de ces poux sociaux.»] Paul Lafargue quoted in Leon Gani, "Jules Guesde, Paul Lafargue et les problèmes de population," Population (French Edition), Vol. 34, No. 6 (Nov. – Dec., 1979), 1032.] [After a life filled with attacking parasites and inheritance, Lafargue and his wife Laura —one of Karl Marx's daughters—would use a portion of a large sum they inherited from Friedrich Engel's to purchase a 30+ room mansion outside of Paris and staff it with three fulltime domestics. Lafargue himself? A parasite.]
Pieter Lawrence. Pieter Lawrence, "Attitudes Towards Work" Socialist Standard, May 1965. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lawrence/1965/work_attitudes.htm.
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Errico Malatesta. Source: Text from Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta, edited and translated by Vernon Richards, published by PM Press. https:/www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1931/production-and-distribution.html.
Benoît Malon. [« Le monde économique étant, en système dit capitaliste, basé sur la productivité du capital … il semble que tout soit arrangé pour favoriser le parasitisme et l'injustice. »] Précis historique, théorique et pratique de la Socialisme (Paris: Felix Alcan, 1892) 268.
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Étienne–Gabriel Morelly. Le code de la nature (Paris: Librairie Paul Geunther, 1910), 95.
William Morris. "The Socialist Ideal: Art" New Review, January 1891 (reprinted in Art and Social Change, Will Bradley and Charles Esche, eds., London: Tate, 2007, 47-52).
Benito Mussolini. Before becoming "the father of Fascism," Benito Mussolini was a leader in the Italian Socialist Party and editor-in-chief of Avanti!, the party's national daily newspaper. In the hundreds of speeches he gave and the hundreds of articles he wrote as a socialist, Mussolini attacked supposed parasites any number of times. This prepared him to do likewise as the world's first fascist dictator. Learn more here. (Do not fear that this quote-less discussion of Mussolini means that 101 Damnations is one short of 101 quotes. This page actually contains quotes from 111 socialists.).
Julius Nyerere. https://ethics.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Nyerere-UjamaaThe-Basis-of-African-Socialism-1962.pdf. Julius Nyerere, "Ujamaa: The Basis of African Socialism" (Dar Es Salaam, 1962).
Sydney Olivier. "The Moral Basis of Socialism" in G. Bernard Shaw, ed., Fabian Essays in Socialism, American Edition, ed. H .G. Wilson (New York:Humboldt Publishing, 1891) 114.
Bertell Ollman. "Marx's Vision of Communism" https://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/vision_of_communism_content.php.
Moissaye J. Olgin (1878-1939):. Why Communism? Plain Talks on Vital Problems New York: Daily Worker, 1934.
Sylvia Pankhurst. Kathryn Dodd, editor, A Sylvia Pankhurst Reader (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993) 132. [Other examples from Pankhurst attacking what he saw as parasites/parasitism appear in the body of the paper above.]
Anton Pannekoek. "There are Reforms and There are Reforms Or Two Sorts of Reforms" Le Socialisme, November 7, 1908; https://www.marxists.org/archive/.
Brian Pearce. Brian Pearce. Constant Reader: Workers in Uniform (May 1959) The Newsletter, 16 May 1959. https://www.marxists.org/archive/.
Constantin Pecqueur. Théorie nouvelle d'économie sociale et politique, ou Études sur l'organisation des sociétés (Capelle, Libraire-Éditeur, 1842), 535.
Pol Pot. Henri Locard, Pol Pot's Little Red Book: The Sayings of the Angkar (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2004) 185.
Juan Posadas. Les soucoupes volantes, le processus de la matière et de l'énergie, la science, la lutte de classes et revolutionnaire et le future socialiste de l'humanité, Paris: Éditions Réed, 1968.
Pierre–Joseph Proudhon. [« le fainéant, le débauché́, qui, sans accomplir aucune tâche sociale, jouit comme un autre, et souvent plus qu'un autre, des produits de la société́, doit être poursuivi comme voleur et parasite : nous nous devons à nous-mêmes de ne lui donner rien, mais, puisque néanmoins il faut qu'il vive, de le mettre en surveillance et de le contraindre au travail. »] Qu'est-ce que la propriété́? ou Recherches sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement (Paris : J.F. Brocard, 1840) 194. See RFP paper "Why Socialism Says Slacking Is Theft" to learn more about this related aspect of socialist thought, another byproduct of socialism's foundation on the anti-liberal principle of mandatory duty to society.
Charles Rappoport. What is Socialism? https://www.marxists.org/archive/.
Georges Renard. [« Dans la société́ actuelle il existe une foule d'inutiles, d'oisifs, de parasites; en haut, des gens pouvant se dispenser de travailler, parce qu'ils vivent du travail d'autrui transformé en rentes et profits; en bas, des vagabonds et des voleurs grappillant une piètre existence aux dépens des possédants qu'ils peuvent dépouiller; parmi ceux qui travaillent, quantité́ de forces perdues par suite des vices d'organisation qu'implique l'abandon de la production à des entreprises privées: nécessité d'une nuée d'intermédiaires entre le consommateur et le producteur; concurrence implacable…. »] Le régime socialiste: principes de son organisation économique et politique, 6eme ed. (Paris: Felix Alcon, 1907) 136-137.
Maximilien Rubel. Maximilien Rubel, John Crump, Non-market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Palgrave, 1987), 65.
Charles E. Ruthenberg. Speeches and Writings of Charles E. Ruthenberg, Voices of Revolt no. 10 (New York: International Publishers, 1928) 35.
Henri de Saint-Simon. [« Mais il y a autour de la société́, il circule dans son sein une foule d'hommes parasites qui ayant les mêmes besoins et les mêmes désirs que les autres, aux n'ont pu surmonter comme eux la paresse naturelle à tous et qui, ne produisant rien, consomment ou veulent consommer comme s'ils…»] Œuvres de Saint-Simon & d'Enfantin. Volume 18 (Paris: E. Dentu, 1868) 129-130. Saint Simon and his followers also attacked "slackers," (fainéants), "idlers" (oisif, oisivies), and "unproductives" (improductifs) dozens of times in their writings, as is common across socialist writing.
Robert Sewell. "Why you should be a socialist" Socialist Appeal, September 4, 2015.
Max Shachtman. The Fight for Socialism, (New York: New International Publishing Co., 1946) 168.
Bernard Shaw. George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1928), xxi
A. M. Simons. American Farmer (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co.,1908) 43.
John Spargo. Applied Socialism: A Study of the Application of Socialistic Principles to the State (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1912) 298.
Joseph Stalin. J.V. Stalin Collected Works, Vol. 1 (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1953) 339-340.
John Strachey. How Socialism Works (New York, Modern Age Books,1939) 145.
R. H. Tawney. The Acquisitive Society (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1921) 34.
Maurice Thorez. [« … nos Parti voulut unir tous les travailleurs, tous les malheureux contre ceux qui les exploitent et les divisent. Il voulut unir eensemble du peuple laborieux contre la minorité parasite qui opprime et ruine le pays.»] Maurice Thorez, Le France du front populaire et sa mission dans le monde (Paris: Éditions de comité populaire, 1937) 8.
Hillel H. Ticktin. "What Will a Socialist Society Be Like?" January 1997, Critique, 25:1, 153.
Sekou Toure. "The man who thinks and acts exclusively for himself is a social parasite," said Sekou Toure. "Capitalist society doesn't lie some of the time, it lies all of the time," said Kwame Ture. "And we know that whenever people are lied to for so long the truth sounds like a lie and a lie sounds like the truth." https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/tag/clr+james.
Alphonse Toussenel. [« une véritable monarchie démocratique, où tout le monde travail, la reine comme le peuple, et où les travailleurs mettent impitoyablement a mort les parasites, pour nous montrer que la constitution de l'ordre parfait et du travail attrayant ne comporte pas d'oisifs. »] Les Juifs, rois de l'époque: histoire de la féodalité́ financière (Paris: A la libraire d'école sociétaire, 1845), 59.
Gustave Tridon. [« Le premier rang appartient au citoyen utile, au travailleur, au paysan. L'oisif et le parasite doivent retomber dans le mépris où ils ont si longtemps tenu leurs esclaves. »] Les Hébertistes: la Commune de Paris de 1793, (2e éd.) 41.
Leon Trotsky. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917, trans. Moissaye J. Olgin (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1918) 121
Anton Cu Unjieng. Anton Cu Unjieng, "What will socialism look like?" Socialist.ca, 7 Nov., 2014. www.socialist.ca/node/3906.
Charles H. Vail. The Principles of Scientific Socialism (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1908) 215.
Emile Vandervelde. Collectivism and Industrial Evolution, trans. R. P. Farley (London: Independent Labor Party, 1907) 107.
Beatrice Webb. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Soviet Communism, 3rd ed., 33.
Sidney Webb. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Soviet Communism, 3rd ed., 322.
H.G. Wells. This Misery of Boots (Boston: The Ball Publishing Co., 1908) 38.
Chris Williams. Chris Williams, Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010), 202.
James A. Yunker. James A. Yunker, Socialism Revised and Modernized (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 1992), 135.