#socialism

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. ↗

#democracy #everyday #everyday life #life #means

It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it…we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gaining equality….In short, people decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#equality

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable. ↗

— Martin Bormann

#irreconcilable #national #socialism

There is also the basic inequality of being born either with a natural talent or without one. Clever or stupid. No matter how much you try to argue against it, Dora, we are not born equal. All we can ever strive for is the equality of opportunity for those who have the ability to make the most of it. ↗

— Sally Wentworth

#inequality #socialism #equality

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. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#builds #capitalism #destroys #get #left

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#indispensable #socialism

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#impossible #socialism #unsustainable #what if

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ↗