But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party. Earl Browder Read Quote
The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization. Earl Browder Read Quote
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this – Tito and Mao Tse-tung. Earl Browder Read Quote
Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces. Earl Browder Read Quote
I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence. Earl Browder Read Quote
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. Earl Browder Read Quote
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy. Earl Browder Read Quote
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale. Earl Browder Read Quote
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production. Earl Browder Read Quote
