Quotes About Socialism

Socialism is like one of those horrible viruses. You no sooner discover a remedy for one version, than it spontaneously evolves into another.

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money

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.

The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.

I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

As I've watched the Berlin Wall come down, the cry for freedom in China, and the eastern bloc nations, I rejoice, because I see the bankruptcy of Marxist-Leninism, socialism in this world.

Why am I a socialist? Simple: Because I believe in freedom.

leftist threats of redistribution had installed him as potentate redux, a starched-collar exemplar in the face of socialism's hectoring witch.

The appropriate response to precarious people's lives is not more prisons, but the forming of just policies for all and creative socialism in the practice of building new institutions for care and restoration. Attaining those, however, will require building people's movements that take down Lockdown America and free up new imagination and practice for dramatic and feasible socialist futures.

In plain English, Anyon promoted her dumbed-down brand of Marxist ideology in the classroom in lieu of a traditional approach to attaining knowledge. For example, she wrote: "Capitalism's private ownership of production is… distinct from a socialist/communist system as imagined by Marx, in which everyone contributes to the production of economic goods according to their ability, and is provided profits and goods according to what each person needs."44

The future belongs to socialism

The goal of socialism is communism.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

When the government does the job of a parent, that's socialism.

He found it funny that his socialist friends did not actually want to live in such places either. "I realized that socialism is not a political proposal, not an economic plan. Socialism is the residue of Judeo-Christian faith, without religion. It is a belief in community, the goodness of the human race and paradise on earth.

The Communists are only consistently carrying further what had already been long present during religious evolution, and especially in the State; to wit, propertylessness, i. e. the feudal system.

Countries that try to spread their ideologies by force, be it religion, socialism, capitalism, democracy or something else, will be overwhelmed by the human and economic cost of conflicts. Those countries will lag behind other countries that are focusing on developing their economies and advancing their interests via global partnerships and trade.

Nor is it simply the small socialist gatherings Joe attends, though he hates to be a joiner, can't stand to be part of a group, even for a cause he believes in like this one, sitting earnest and cross-legged on someone's mildewed carpet and just listening, just taking information in, not offering anything of his own.

Marx was an astronomer of history, not an astrologer.

The absence of a vision of a socialist alternative ensures that there is no alternative to capitalism. If you don't know where you want to go, no road will take you there

We are witnessing the total collapse of a bad idea. Obamaism, a quasi-socialist commitment to a more powerful government at home and an abdication of American leadership around the world, is being exposed as a historic calamity. It is fueling domestic fear and global disorder and may well lead to a world war.