4 Quotes & Sayings By Alex Callinicos

Alex Callinicos is a British Marxist political theorist. He is a member of the Socialist Workers Party and was a long-standing member of the editorial board of Socialist Review. He has been a leading figure in the British Socialist Workers Party since its foundation in Britain in 1981. His books include: The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1982), Against the Imperialist Myth: Revolution and Counter Revolution in the Twenty-First Century (1995), The Death of Stalin: The History of an Illusion (2005), and, most recently, Fascism: An Essay on the Nature and Destiny of Fascism (2011).

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Elections are supposed to be political occasions. In fact the opposite is true. The last thing politicians want to talk about at election-time is politics. What they want to talk about is votes. And the less you talk about politics, the more votes you're likely to win - otherwise you might offend someone. Alex Callinicos
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Economic crises breed war. Alex Callinicos
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For what is socialism? With the frills removed, it is people collectively running society. Instead of being the prisoners of anarchic capitalist competition and the mad rush for profit at any cost, it is working together for the common good. Our tremendous co-operative power would be controlled, not by a ruling class in the search for ever greater profits, but democratically and for the fulfillment of human need. Alex Callinicos