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• National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Fall, Eugenics

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• Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Medicine, Failing, Reason

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• Socialism means slavery.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Eugenics, Political

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• The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Party, Political, Principles

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• Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

  Anderson Cooper

  Government, Views, Lists

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people's taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline.

  Bill Maher

  Military, Cutting, Gay

  "Maher: Reagan wrote GOP playbook" by Hadas Gold, www.politico.com. June 8, 2013.

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• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, Class, Important

  "Rule By Thieves: One Week in the American Kleptocracy" by John W. Whitehead, www.counterpunch.org. March 17, 2017.

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• If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Giving, Doe, Faces

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• We are going to give a little something, a few little years more, to socialism, because socialism is defunct. It dies all by itself. The bad thing is that socialism, being a victim of its... Did I say socialism?

  Fidel Castro

  Years, Giving, Littles

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• I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad.

  Edward Snowden

  Running, Party, Mad

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• Socialism has been preached for so long, the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

  Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

  Responsibility, Long, People

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• Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

  Pope Pius XI

  Christian, Religious, Expression

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• Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

  Russell Brand

  Dirty, Mean, Arms

  Russell Brand (2014). “Revolution”, p.257, Ballantine Books

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• Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other spots, no one in the world today would define socialism that way. That will never come back.

  Milton Friedman

  Couple, Mean, Government

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations

  Kevin Carson

  Corporations, Coordination, Trade

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• Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Libertarian, Reverse

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• [A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

  Sidney Hook

  Variety

  Sidney Hook (1983). “Marxism and beyond”, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

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• Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?

  Kevin Drum

  Government, Way, Bigs

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• Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

  Frans de Waal

  Rewards, Human Nature, Economic

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• Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else.

  Robert Reich

  Bankers, Rich, Capitalism

  "The Nation Has a Bad Case of Mad Treasury Disease". www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2009.

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• Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, Steps, Problem

  Republican Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2015.

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• Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

  Alexander Berkman

  Gains, Christianity, Destroyed

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• Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

  William O. Douglas

  Upside Down, Rich, Welfare

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• The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

  Margaret Sanger

  Family, Money, Feminist

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• Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.

  Margaret Sanger

  Christian, Money, Humanity

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