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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There just isn't a version of 'socialism in one country' around in the 21st century. I think it's really important that we don't fall for this nirvana of 'Let's just get out, and we can create a socialist Britain.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism may have failed as an economic theory, but global warming alarmism, with its dire warnings about the consequences of industry and consumerism, is equally a rebuke to capitalism.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want government to take everything, if you want government to take more and more over with the banks, more of the industries, all of a sudden you're going to have a government auto czar, right there, right down the line, that's socialism.
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- Nov 07, 2020