The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
quote by Mikhail Gorbachev (8 June 1990)
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I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
quote by Sidney Hook
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Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
quote by David Korten
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Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.
quote by Dick Morris
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In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion. Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point. Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.
quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.
quote by Herbert Read
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I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
quote by Karl Liebknecht
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
quote by Oswald Spengler
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Busted! Out of Order. And Out of Luck
Those 'isms' have them doing deep knee bends.
Heavy burdened are their shoulders,
With fear of socialism.
And capitalism ending their delusions betrayed.
No one seems to realize,
They've sold their souls for a few dollars...
Deceit, alibis and lies.
And these days now witnessed makes this clear.
To those whose eyes have been made to open wide.
Those 'isms' have them doing deep knee bends.
Heavy burdened are their shoulders,
With fear of socialism.
And capitalism ending their delusions betrayed.
But no time was given,
In the speedy spending of their ways...
To build upon an integrity.
With 'some' dignity that had been saved.
Busted!
Out of order.
And out of luck like a plucked duck baking.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
quote by Norman Brenner
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The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.
quote by Peter Brimelow
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Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
Oswald Spengler in The Hour of Decision (1933)
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
quote by Fidel Castro
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We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
quote by John McCarthy
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
quote by Vladimir Lenin
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I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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