Michael Burleigh: Socialism

Michael Burleigh is American historian and writer. Explore interesting quotes on socialism.
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“Many of history’s murderers have staked out the moral high ground, killing for love of confession or country, or in the name of social equality.”

Michael Burleigh

Source: The Third Reich: A New History (2000), p. 659

“If faith and hope were integral to National Socialism, so too, surprisingly enough, was charity. This ceased to be an uncomplicated reflection of human altruism, still less something individuals do discreetly for the good of their souls, or to reap tax exemptions and titles. Instead, it became a favoured means of mobilising communal sentimentality, that most underrated, but quintessential, characteristic of Nazi Germany.”

Michael Burleigh

Source: The Third Reich: A New History (2000), p. 219

“The National Socialists not only joined the Communists in denouncing Social Democratic bosses, but also practiced egalitarianism, unlike bourgeois parties. One should not underestimate the extent to which working-class people bitterly resented being treated as infantile inferiors by the middle and upper classes.”

Michael Burleigh

Source: The Third Reich: A New History (2000), p. 134

“Marxist socialism also had dark nooks and crannies where Jews were regarded as money-mad capitalists or as an ‘obsolete’ people who refused to join the onward march of secular progress towards a moneyless society. Anarchists also suffered from this contagion,…”

Michael Burleigh

Source: The Third Reich: A New History (2000), p. 94