Socialism Quotes
The names at the top make a strange group: Joseph Goebbels, Mussolini, Thatcher, Orwell and George Fitzhugh. Some come from the Nazi movement, which called itself socialist, and some from opponents. For reading, go to the sourced lines instead. H. L. Mencken, in A Little Book in C Major (1916), defines socialism as the theory that one man’s desire for what he hasn’t got is more pleasing to a just God than another’s desire to keep what he has. Solzhenitsyn, at Harvard in 1978, was blunter about it.
Three entries are flagged. “Democracy is the road to socialism,” credited to Karl Marx, is disputed. A line about no longer knowing what socialism is, credited to Deng Xiaoping, is marked misattributed, and the notes say it concerned the French Revolution and was actually said by Zhou Enlai. A claim that National Socialism is based on Marx is credited to Hitler and also marked misattributed.
And all these motivations may be conserved and strengthened under socialism.
Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.
Socialism cannot conquer nor redeem the world if it ceases to believe upon itself alone.
Socialism is bad idea because it about power, which is the worst thing to be about in politics.
The work of the people of Laos in defending their country and building socialism will triumph!
Such is the economic programme of State Socialism as adopted from Karl Marx.
The individual under socialism, despite apparent standardization, is more complete.
We will turn National Socialism into a party of class struggle,…
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.