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Socialism Quotes
One word, defined a dozen different ways.
One definition here ties socialism directly to democracy, arguing neither can exist without the other, while another imagines it as something that keeps returning after every setback. This range of views sits alongside our Politics collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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