Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Gus Hall

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Gus Hall was the General Secretary of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and its four-time U.S. presidential candidate. As a labor leader, Hall was closely associated with the so-called "Little Steel" Strike of 1937, an effort to unionize the nation's smaller, regional steel manufacturers. During the Second Red Scare, Hall was indicted under the Smith Act and was sentenced to eight years in prison. After his release, Hall led the CPUSA for over 40 years, often taking an orthodox Marxist–Leninist stance.

Politician | October 8, 1910 - October 13, 2000

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Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

Gus Hall

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

Gus Hall

On the world scene, it is our position that there is a resurgence of socialism taking place. The world's socialist and Communist forces are now on the move to restore socialism in the former socialist countries and to strengthen the existing socialist countries... there is a new socialist world on the horizon, a resurgence of the world revolutionary process.

Gus Hall

The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it! Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher.

Gus Hall

Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

Gus Hall

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Gus Hall

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