#socialism

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already. ↗

— Steve Steckler

#had #much #socialism #too #too much

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. ↗

— Karl Marx

#regulation #socialism #communism

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. ↗

— Earl Browder

#history #made #marxism #necessary #new

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#answer #concerning #economic #economic theory #exact

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#choice #described #doctrine #first #government

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#description #discovery #extends #function #making

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#authority #fully #liberty #names #other

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#communism #delusion #dictatorship #few #form

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#age #ages #century #individualism #socialism

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. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving