#socialism

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed. ↗

— B. Carroll Reece

#america #anyway #attracted #attractive #been

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. ↗

— George Reisman

#property #slaves #socialism #therefore

...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced. ↗

— Michael Burawoy

#collective #communism #existence #marxism #neo-marxism

You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care! ↗

— Sally Wentworth

#wealthy #death

My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road ↗

— Marek Edelman

#quoted-by-paul-mason #socialism #freedom

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#democracy #funny #humour #politics #revolution

I collect collectivisms. I’ve already got socialism and communism, and all I need is fascism to complete the set. I’m looking to trade my dusty democracy, but Uncle Sam isn’t interested in a deal at this time. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#collections #collectivism #communism #democracy #fascism

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#capitalism #inevitability #inspirational #marxism #resistance

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#intelligence

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. ↗

— Will Durant

#cure #little #little money #money #nothing