Socialism Quotes
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Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.
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Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.
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The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces of conservatism.
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The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.
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The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.
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A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.
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The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.
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Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.
