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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.

— Michael Harrington Socialism: Past and Future (1989)

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Life is lived in common, but not in community.

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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.

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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.

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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.

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