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Quotes from Socialism: Past and Future — Michael Harrington

1928–1989 United States

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It is an intolerable irony that societies that are anything but socialist should thus define what socialism is in the eyes of so many. It is an irony that has to be undone.

Socialism: Past and Future (1989)

Socialism, I want to propose, is the hope for human freedom and justice under the unprecedented conditions of life that humanity will face in the twenty-first century.

Socialism: Past and Future (1989)

The rise of Communist states - dictatorship with centrally planned, nationalized economies - did more to distort and confuse the meaning of socialism than any other event in history.

Socialism: Past and Future (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Harrington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.