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Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

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.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.

Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

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.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Socialism Is For The People, Not The Socialist.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Socialism is a new form of slavery.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.

The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.

Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.

The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?

The fundamental basis is this: Socialism requires that government becomes your God. That's why they have to destroy the concept of God. They have to destroy all loyalties except loyalty to the government.

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism. From the time of their emancipation their methods were directed to the annihilation of the folkish and moral worth of the German people and to replace a national and responsible ideology with international nihilism.

The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.

The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.

The many woes that afflict out nation are rooted in the morally bankrupt paradigms of socialism, interventionism, and empire that have held our nation in their grip for decades and that the only real solution to such woes is libertarianism.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

Those in power are blind devotees to private enterprise. They accept that degree of socialism implicit in the vast subsidies to the military-industrial-complex, but not that type of socialism which maintains public projects for the disemployed and the unemployed alike.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.