Socialist Economy Quotes

• I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Evil, Goal

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

  David Boaz

  School, Principles, Failing

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• America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Government, America, Definitions

  YouTube Chanel "NaughtButEddie"/ "Politically Incorrect August 1998 Part 1 of 2 Eddie Izzard Christine O'Donnell", www.youtube.com. June 21, 2009.

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• Socialist economy cannot reject the huge advantages of the world division of labor: on the contrary, it will carry it to the highest development. But in practise, it is not a question of the future socialist society, with an established internal equilibrium, but of the given technically and culturally backward country which in the interests of industrialisation and collectivization is forced to export as much as possible in order to import as much as possible.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Division Of Labor, Order

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Post-1989 capitalism was far more unfriendly to economic and social rights than was the prior capitalism seeking to win public approval as a more compassionate economic arrangement than that which prevailed in state socialist economies.

  Richard A. Falk

  Winning, Rights, Approval

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Struggle, Mean

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

  Samora Machel

  Law, Essentials, Legal System

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• It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.

  Michal Kalecki

  Advantage, Characteristics, Paradoxical

  Michal Kalecki (1971). “Selected Essays on the Dynamics of the Capitalist Economy 1933-1970”, p.97, CUP Archive

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• We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by the army but by the entire Soviet people. The Socialist economy, Soviet political structure, and Marxist-Leninist ideology proved their unarguable excellence against the Fascist economy, Fascist political structure, and Fascist ideology of Germany.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Country, Army, People

  "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal", Yerevan, 1987.

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• We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

  William Pfaff

  Earth, Seems, Economy

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27, 1989.

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• If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.

  Kliment Voroshilov

  Strong, Regret, Thinking

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• If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.

  Peter L. Berger

  Degrees, Possibility, Force

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• But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

  Peter L. Berger

  Real, Example, Alternatives

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• The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.

  Joan Robinson

  Nature, Money, Work

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.1, Springer

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