George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Socialism

• A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Humor, Debt, Socialism

• I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Mean, Equality

• Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Son, Men, Class

• Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Socialism, Communism

  "Inside the Mind of George Bernard Shaw". Book by David Graham, September 20, 2014.

• Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Socialism, Economics, Proletariat

• Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Perfect, Healthy, Democracy

• 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

  Mean, Intelligent, Misunderstood

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.276, e-artnow

• We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Should Have, Socialism, Should

  "The Intelligent Woman's Guide To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism, and Fascism". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1928.

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