Salvador Allende: Socialism

Salvador Allende was Chilean physician and politician. Explore interesting quotes on socialism.
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“As for the bourgeois state, at the present moment, we are seeking to overcome it, to overthrow it.… Our objective is total, scientific, Marxist socialism.”

Salvador Allende

As quoted in Conversations With Allende (1970) by Regis Debray

“For you to be a Communist or a Socialist is to be totalitarian; for me no.… On the contrary, I think Socialism frees man.”

Salvador Allende

Quoted in "Allende Sees Chile Finding Her Own Way to Socialism" by Joseph Novitski, in The New York Times (4 October 1970)
Context: We start from different ideological positions. For you to be a Communist or a Socialist is to be totalitarian; for me no.… On the contrary, I think Socialism frees man.

“They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.”

Salvador Allende

Final address (1973)
Context: Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seeds which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history.

“We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees.”

Salvador Allende

As quoted in Conversations With Allende (1970) by Regis Debray