Socialist Quotes - Page 19

• Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a revolutionary capitalist instead of a revolutionary socialist.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Politics, Might

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• American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

  David Boaz

  School, Socialist Economy, Principles

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• I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

  Robert Sirico

  Rain, Animal, Lakes

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• Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

  James Cook

  Government, Support, Persons

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• free market is a market in which groups and individuals are differently represented. Parity in prosperity and performance between differently able individuals and groups can be achieved only by playing socialist leveler.

  Ilana Mercer

  Groups, Able, Prosperity

  "Apartheid South Africa: Reality vs. libertarian fantasy". praag.org. December 20, 2013.

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• Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality . ...Complete freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches. Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.

  Donald Rooum

  Suffering, Liberty, Demand

  Donald Rooum (2016). “What is Anarchism?: An Introduction”, p.25, PM Press

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• Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Selfishness, Incentives, Laziness

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• Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

  Elliott Abrams

  Government, People, Firsts

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• In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Socialist Government, Murder, Vulnerable

  Mark Kurlansky (2010). “The Basque History of the World”, p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner.

  Adolf Hitler

  Germany, Want, Wagner

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• With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Socialist Government, Inequality, Surplus

  "Rodríguez Zapatero reprocha a Rajoy que no afronte el debate presupuestario como líder del PP". Newspaper article, www.elmundo.es. October 29, 2003.

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• It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

  Joe Slovo

  Thinking, Ordinary, Alternatives

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• I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Humanitarian, Pacifist, Dies

  "Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters". Book by George Hendrick, 1977.

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• I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

  Jack Kemp

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  "Jack Kemp, former QB and congressman, dies" by Harry Siegel And Jonathan Martin, www.politico.com. May 2, 2009.

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• Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of a nation and of its citizens. In simpler words, socialism makes people worse.

  Dennis Prager

  Character, People, Judging

  "Socialism Makes People Worse" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 21, 2006.

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• The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Skills, Political, Humanity

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• Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

  Monica Crowley

  Jewels, Crowns, Healthcare

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• I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

  Cindy Sheehan

  Ashamed

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• Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

  Maurice Druon

  France, Language, Pot

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• The main priority of the Socialist Party is education".

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Party, Socialist Party, Priorities

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• Here she was, being rescued by a socialist, feminist, lesbian, baby-killing, foreign terrorist. What would the ladies in the sewing circle say to that?

  Hillary Jordan

  Baby, Circles, Feminist

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• As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

  Anthony Crosland

  Law, Defiance, Democratic

  Speech in the House of Commons, November 6, 1974.

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• Every factory must be a school to educate, like Che Guevara said, to produce not only briquettes, steel, and aluminum, but also, above all, the new man and woman, the new society, the socialist society.

  Hugo Chavez

  School, Men, Steel

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• There are Marxists and there are people that are socialists. But the label of Marxist takes on a whole new meaning. Even socialist for a while took on a whole new meaning.

  Glenn Beck

  People, Labels, Marxist

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle. As his vision became more internationalist and pan-African, as he began, especially in 1964, after seeing the example of anti-colonial revolutions abroad and began to articulate and incorporate a socialist analysis economically into his program, he clearly became a threat to the US state.

  Manning Marable

  Struggle, Understanding, Vision

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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