The calls for socialism on the left get louder and louder, and they don’t stop.
The case for socialism is always made based on an ideal and a promise. The ideal is that humans can lovingly coexist in a sharing and peaceful way. The promise is that this time, unlike failed attempts elsewhere, socialism will be implemented properly, and no citizen will suffer as a result.
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.
The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there’s no dictatorship here.
Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.
I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.
Seriously, you can’t talk socialism in America without going to the OG, Sen. Bernie Sanders.
If anyone says that American socialism isn’t possible, point them toward the bowling shoe.
In socialism, everything is supposed to be equal. And yet, it’s always fascinating how the elite government bureaucrats (in socialist places like Venezuela, Cuba and Argentina) are the ones that wind up with all the money.
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.
To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!
Socialism doesn’t work. A big government doesn’t work.
To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.
We either go one direction, left, which would be socialism. Or right, which would be people trying to make the money themselves.
Socialism and freedom are not compatible, regardless of repeated convincings.
The perverse gift of the Chinese coronavirus is that it has given Americans an up close and personal look at the horrors of big government – and, by extension, socialism.
Socialism values equality more than liberty.
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.
The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
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.
This much I would say: Socialism has failed all over the world. In the eighties, I would hear every day that there is no inflation in the Soviet Union, there is no poverty in the Soviet Union, there is no unemployment in the Soviet Union. And now we find that, due to Socialism, there is no Soviet Union!
And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.
If the Jew transmogrified into the Devil for the medieval church, he retained his devilish characteristics as Christian sentiment found other places to express itself, early socialism being one of them.
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.
Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.
The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market economy in an adequate and correct way.
A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
To me, it seems pretty obvious that socialism is terrible. After all, do you know what’s not terrible? Freedom.
The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.
There are words bandied about that are being misused – words like ‘socialism,’ words like ‘communism,’ words like ‘fascism.’
Here’s what I don’t think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I’m tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century; we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
I made the case for public ownership in ‘Another World is Possible’ – a manifesto for 21st-century socialism – as it is the most rational approach for managing resources in the long-term interest of the entire community.
Throughout the west, the rise of populism has shaken establishments, with politicians and commentators asking why there has been a resurgent interest in socialism, and a growth of the far right on the opposite side.
Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people’s money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don’t go broke.
People like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been very busy educating America about just how much socialism we have, from Social Security to Medicare to public schools to public universities, and how much we love that. The truth is that there is no pure socialist or capitalist economy on earth.
In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident – in the way that only 17-year-olds are – that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.
