Quotes About Socialism

My view of democratic socialism builds on the success of many other countries around the world that have done a far better job than we have in protecting the needs of their working families, their elderly citizens, the children, the sick and the poor.

Voluntaryism is the idea that all human interactions should be free of coercion, based on individual self-ownership. This is in contrast to socialism, which is based on coercion justified by collective ownership.

We, people of socialism, are not like others. We have our peculiar ideas about heroes and martyrs.

Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and women.

People focus on the labels when they are not sure what they mean. What people call socialism these days is Eisenhower Republicanism!

I think of myself as a democratic capitalist, although I think the word 'socialism' loses its meaning every time that it is used to describe literally any policy left of far right by the current Republicans.

The calls for socialism on the left get louder and louder, and they don't stop.

Is socialism still for me if I'm a millennial millionaire?

I made the case for public ownership in 'Another World is Possible' - a manifesto for 21st-century socialism - as it is the most rational approach for managing resources in the long-term interest of the entire community.

Sometimes you have to invest in people to get the best out of them. To me, that is socialism. That is why I'm a Labour member rather than a Conservative.

The promise of socialism is a lie.

Socialism most always leads to a failure of democracy because the economic system ultimately cannot provide for its people.

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.

I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.

If anyone says that American socialism isn't possible, point them toward the bowling shoe.

Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.

Socialism doesn't work. A big government doesn't work.

Seriously, you can't talk socialism in America without going to the OG, Sen. Bernie Sanders.

But I do have one real problem with socialism: I like money.

I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality, justice and peace through democracy.

But cutting the working week would free the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend as they see fit. Human freedom should be the core aim of modern socialism. The right to work less would be an act of liberation - and a cause the left should embrace.

To me, it seems pretty obvious that socialism is terrible. After all, do you know what's not terrible? Freedom.