Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
Oswald Spengler in The Hour of Decision (1933)
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
quote by Oswald Spengler
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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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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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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
quote by Karl Liebknecht
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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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Under capitalism man exploits man under socialism the reverse is true.
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.
Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
quote by John Bates Clark
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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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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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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.
quote by Mikhail Gorbachev
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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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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 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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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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Good Institutions
Share whatever we have and dream prosperity for all
Respond generous humanity and calamity call
What keeps us united in all the circumstances?
Something must be believed in substances
Some thing said and not done, will not work
All good work done will be lost in smoke
We are here for upliftment of all classes
It is difficult task and not easy walk on roses
There is one conception dreamt about
Growth and happiness for all out
Equal participation in real terms
No communism, capitalism or socialism
The system which benefits all the communities
Number of welfare schemes with different varieties
No one is allowed to hold sway over others
Nothing is conceived in haste that bothers
Rivers are kept pollution free
No destruction of forests with trees
Equal rights for all human beings
No violation of any kind and simply undoing
Time has come to decentralize the powers
No higher rise buildings or towers
Little huts with basic amenities
A step forward for elimination of poverty
Socialism or any other “ism” dreamt in concept
Will not succeed if it lacks teeth with aptness
Poor may increase with lot more agony to add
We will have many more in waiting to be fed
Some kind of vigilant eye to keep watch over happenings
Certain steps to be taken for good beginning
It is not at all bad to dream and put in execution
That is how some of the change takes place in good institutions
poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
quote by Winston Churchill
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
quote by Winston Churchill
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