#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

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More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? ↗

— Ken MacLeod

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I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism. ↗

— Ed Miliband

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It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ↗

— Norman Tebbit

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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. ↗

— Herbert Read

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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

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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

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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

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