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Soviet communism and Western capitalism share the same crazy ideology: forced industrialization of society.

— Gianni Vattimo Only Weak Communism Can Save Us (2013)

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I am a marxist, a leninist and I don't even consider disagreeable Stalin, who saved us from Hitler, more than the United States.

Opposing homosexual families is only possible in the name of a philosophical belief about the natural essence of the family itself. This cannot be professed by a lay state.

The paradoxical fact is that it is precisely the passion for truth, conscience, in its search for the truth, that has come to undermine itself: it has discovered, in fact, that it is just a passion like any other.

Just as Western literature would be unthinkable without the Homeric poems, without Shakespeare, without Dante, so our culture as a whole would be meaningless if we were to cut Christianity out of it.

I am Christian, therefore I am communist. The first Christian communities were very communist... except that they were expecting the immediate end of the world.

Only Weak Communism Can Save Us (2013)

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The most obvious negative feature of capitalism is that it can produce private monopolies that restrict output and thereby harm consumers.

Dennis Mueller The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism (2012)

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

Fidel Castro

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