Quotes by Earl Browder

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.
• The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.