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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
- Goal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of socialism is communism.
- Nov 07, 2020
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in 1992. The intent was to save socialism in Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the predictable bankruptcy of the welfare state in the West as well.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?
- Ghastly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.
- General Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.
- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
- Blackout
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it's time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marxism, communism, socialism - the ideologies - did not have the automatic answers to the problem of the relations between the lighter and darker races of mankind. They did not even have an answer to anti-Semitism.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad saw himself as part of a historic struggle for human liberation: he met my mum canvassing for the Labour party in a snowstorm in Tooting, he helped lead strikes, and recruited miners to socialism.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Tories have built a system defined by insecurity - from wages to job contracts to housing to the welfare state. If they want to understand why socialism - long dead, never coming back, or so they thought - has undergone a revival, this is why.
- Latinos
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic variable the poor have to counteract the injustices of the Fed is the minimum wage law.
- National
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- Nov 07, 2020
National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is antithetical to freedom, because when it breeds and thrives, people die.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
The argument that any income redistribution is tantamount to socialism, and that socialism has always been unAmerican, has helped legitimise keeping taxes on America's very wealthy very low.
- Insurance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obamacare is socialism? Nope - as insurance companies vie to sell new policies, competition within private industry is growing rapidly, with the number of participating insurers growing by 26 percent between 2014 and 2015, and the number of products they offer growing by 66 percent.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence; it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political and military position of socialism should be further cemented so that it can be an impregnable fortress.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the road to socialism.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
- Mass
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feudalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.
- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism means slavery.
- Course
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
- Cohesive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
- Economic Theory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's sort of like a cultural democracy or musical socialism to take a stand and get out of the major cities if you can.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.
- Franklin
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps the economy. Some will call it socialism. Some will call it a command and control economy. Whatever it is, it's antithetical to the American experience.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.
- Nov 07, 2020
Seriously, you can't talk socialism in America without going to the OG, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
- Dictators
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I even believed in a third way; I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. But I was wrong. The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.
- Concern
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- Nov 07, 2020
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
- Certain Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.
- Compatible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits of a social order are shared in an equitable and just manner.
- Nov 07, 2020