Quotes About Socialism

Béla Kun, a disciple of Lenin, created the first version of a Communist Hungary in 1919

But Hayek is also one of the handful of social scientists who (along with his teacher Ludwig von Mises) demonstrated more than sixty years ago why the socialist system could not work and, thus, why it would eventually collapse, as it did in 1989.

The catastrophe of every socialist scheme in the 20th century has had a devastating effect on leftwing optimism and has replaced it with the corrosive nihilism that makes it impossible for most leftists to defend a country which, compared to the socialist paradises, is a veritable heaven on earth. All that remains of the revolutionary project is the bitter hatred of the society its exponents inhabit, and their destructive will to bring it down.

The effort to transform natural inequalities into social equality could only lead to greater, more brutal inequality; the socialist effort to transform individual diversity into social unity could only lead to the totalitarian state.

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

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

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

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.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.