Socialism Quotes - Page 14

• Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.

  Richard A. Falk

  Alternatives, Variables, Shifting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The problem of peaceful transition to socialism, we do not discuss it as a theoretical question. But in America it is very difficult, and it is nearly impossible. That is why specifically in America we say that the road to the liberation of peoples, which will be the road of socialism will go through bullets in almost all countries.

  Che Guevara

  Country, America, Peaceful

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.

  Wendell Berry

  Matter, Economy, Standards

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

  Len Deighton

  Philosophy, Men, Political

  Len Deighton (1964). “Funeral in Berlin”, HarperCollins UK

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• Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Mean, Class

  "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by Friedrich Hayek, The Intellectuals and Socialism (ch. 12), 1967.

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• The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Past, Ideas

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• Protectionism, socialism, all varieties of state favoritism and restrictions on competition, and the growth of bureaucracy and jobbery were the means by which special interests sought to exploit the public, the great mass of consumers and taxpayers.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Mean, Political

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• As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Men, Goal

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• The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

  George Reisman

  Philosophy, Loss, Eugenics

  George Reisman (1979). “The Government Against the Economy: The Story of the U.S. Government's On-going Destruction of the American Economic System Through Price Controls”, Green Hill Pub

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

  Gus Hall

  Global Warming, Environment, Climate Change

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• Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Kyoto Protocol, Global Warming, Communism

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• Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907, 1929 and 1987.In economies and politics, as in war, an astonishing number of people die, like the man on the railway crossing, defending their right of way. This is a poorly developed instinct in Switzerland. No country so firmly avows the principles of private enterprise but in few have the practical concessions to socialism been more numerous and varied.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, War, Men

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• The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Evil, Age

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

  Ken MacLeod

  What If, Impossible, Capitalism

  "The Falling Rate of Profit, Red Hordes and Green Slime: What the Fall Revolution Books Are About". "Nova Express", Volume 6, Spring/Summer 2001.

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• I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Principles, Noses

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Government, Goal, Feminist

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• The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

  Irving Kristol

  Enemy, Nihilism, Today

  Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.

  Stafford Cripps

  Fundamentals, Empires, Should

  "Hull Daily Mail" Newspaper, March 2, 1936.

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• Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community

  Tony Benn

  Community, Littles, Society Today

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• There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Immaculate Conception, Immaculate, Conception

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• There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Democratic Socialism, Democratic, Mankind

  Aneurin Bevan's Statement on his resignation in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. April 23, 1951.

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• I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

  Tim Scott

  Believe, Thinking, Problem

  "Interview with Representative Tim Scott". "The John King, USA Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Return, Primitive, Conditions

  Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley (2011). “The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B”, p.531, Cambridge University Press

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• Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety.

  George Reisman

  People, Safety, Needs

  "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.

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• And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Dark, Fighting, Clouds

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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