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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?
In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.
To me, it seems pretty obvious that socialism is terrible. After all, do you know what's not terrible? Freedom.
The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
Socialism is not a way of life. It is an unworkable formula which would apply to robots but not to men and women.
I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.
I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.
Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it's time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all.
There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.
Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.
Socialism destroys the incentive to produce, dampens the human spsirit and results, ultimately , in less for everyone.
The political and military position of socialism should be further cemented so that it can be an impregnable fortress.
Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.
It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.
In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.
Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'
Socialism most always leads to a failure of democracy because the economic system ultimately cannot provide for its people.
[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.
Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.
The communists saw what we did in the arts as the only product of socialism that was known in the West, so they tolerated it.
Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
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.
There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.
To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.
The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results.
We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.
I grew up during the shift to socialism, and since it was my childhood, I used to think that everything was beautiful and human.
No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.
'Socialism' became this weird household word partially because right-wingers call Obama a socialist, which he is the farthest from.
Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism.