Erich Fromm Quotes About Socialism

Quotes about: Socialism

• I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Organization, Citizens

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• If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

  Erich Fromm

  Lying, Socialism, States

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• The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

  Erich Fromm

  Socialism, Ownership, States

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• I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise.

  Erich Fromm

  Management, Socialism, Enterprise

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• I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of decentralization.

  Erich Fromm

  Mixtures, Socialism, Modern

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• What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Opposites, Culture, Socialism

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• The Russians have succeeded in one thing: they have sold the world the idea that they represent socialism and the ideas of Marx,and we have done the greatest service to their propaganda by agreeing that that's what it is.

  Erich Fromm

  Ideas, Done, World

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• I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Opposites, People

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