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Quotes from Socialism's Legacy — Alan Charles Kors

born 1943 United States

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Socialism is easily understood by any child; it is taking other people's stuff.

Socialism's Legacy (2011)

Socialism almost never has been judged as a goal in value by the experience of communism in power.

Socialism's Legacy (2011)

Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.

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I think it's almost impossible to impose a free and liberal society from the outside.

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Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.

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The bodies demand accounting, apology, and repentance. Without such things, the age of communism lives.

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[I]f private property goes, then in my view there is no safeguard whatsoever.

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I don't think that you can impose liberal societies from the outside.

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Milton Friedman, a great defender of liberty in my view.

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Let the apologists for communists acknowledge the dead, bury the dead, and atone for the dead. Otherwise, let them be forgiven only when they have put out their eyes and wandered blind, away from Thebes.

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A government, a regime that is not willing to slaughter large numbers of its own citizens to stay in tyrannical power will lose power.

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There are in the final analysis, two kinds of decisions. One, decisions you make for yourself and two decisions other people make for you, whether it's one tyrant or 51% of your fellow citizens.

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Red China will make Libya look like a picnic if that government feels threatened.

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Ask college freshmen how many died under Stalin's regime, and they will answer even now, "Thousands? Tens of thousands?" What does that mean? It is the equivalent of believing that Hitler killed hundreds of Jews.

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The bones of Cambodia, and the millions who risked death to flee communist Vietnam and Laos for an uncertain life anywhere else, tells us about the moral value, though not necessarily the military tactical wisdom, of the anti-communist cause.

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[S]ocialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.

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The chasm between what central planning and liberal society brought us, should be the most studied phenomenon of our times. One looks in vain for such study in our research, textbooks, schools, and universities.

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[F]reedom depended ultimately on the outcome struggle between private property, voluntary production, and voluntary exchange on the one hand, and central planning on the other.

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The collapse of European communist regimes will not entail disillusionment with the substance of socialism under other names until the latter is identified and linked to the catastrophic experience of the former. There is no reason to believe that this has occurred.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alan Charles Kors (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.