Quotes About Socialism

John Stuart Mill was called a Ricardian socialist because classical economists were moving toward reforms they themselves characterized as social – and hence, as socialist. Most reformers referred to themselves as socialists of one kind or another, from Christian socialists to Marxist socialists and reformers across the political spectrum. The question was what kind of socialism "free market" capitalism would evolve into.

Strauss's later judgment on the Kantian-Cohenian idea of ethical socialism was dispositive: Cohen's thought belongs to the world preceding World War I. Accordingly, he had a greater faith in the power of modern Western culture to mold the fate of mankind than seems warranted now. The worst things he had experienced were the Dreyfus scandal and the pogroms instigated by Czarist Russia; he did not experience Communist Russia and Hitler's Germany.

No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed.

the problem with socialism is, was, and always will be that sooner or later the government runs out of other people's money to spend. If it continued to take from those who work and produce, before long they stop producing, and then there is no one left to get it from.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.

I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

In the end, the "model" that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be reflected on by all who seriously aspire to progress for the benefit of the human race.

The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy and revives the Leninist concept of socialist construction both in theory and in practice.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

The idea of restructuring [perestroika]… combines continuity and innovation, the historical experience of Bolshevism and the contemporaneity of socialism.

What the commissar said was again repetitious. He declared that the governments of the capitalist countries were being ruthlessly exploited; the farmers in those countries were working with primitive implements. Only in the Soviet Union were farmers taken care of: they were happy; they were embarking on the socialist way of production (he said this as if it were an accepted fact); and they were supplied with the best agricultural machinery.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian

Mais uma vez, os ricardianos abriram caminho para o sistema marxista

Dutt effectively concluded with a quote from an editor of the highly respected Current History Magazine: The new America [the editor had written in mid-1933] will not be capitalist in the old sense, nor will it be socialist. If at the moment the trend is towards fascism, it will be an American fascism, embodying the experience, the traditions, and the hopes of a great middle-class nation.13 Thus

A capitalist regime is more likely to produce these narcissistic behaviours in its citizens compared to a socialist country.

All or most of the prophets were socialists at heart.

As a humanist, I believe that socialism is the only path to reach the promised land of liberty.

Capitalism place money at the centre of everything. While Socialism make the man at the centre of the universe.

Exploitation is considered as a major sin when it comes to socialism.

Only socialism promises the rule of the many and it is the only policy that applies the concept of democracy.

Socialism is and will forever remain to be the only true religion of all the prophets. It's the struggle of brotherhood.

Socialism is based on change and change must obey the principles of time and the working environment that's presented.

Socialism is the only political form that has democratic values.

Socialism is the voice of the workers or employees against the mistreatment of their employers.