#socialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? ↗

— Fidel Castro

#africa #america #asia #capitalism #failure

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction. ↗

— Rafael Correa

#century #construction #even #exactly #founder

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#astray #belonged #blinded #generation #grew

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means. ↗

— Janos Kadar

#communists #i #ideas #interests #join

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democracy #difference #equality #liberty #nothing

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? ↗

— H. G. Wells

#america #attempt #avert #call #collapse

Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work? ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#socialism #work #life

I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social. ↗

— Woody Allen

#misanthrope #social-anxiety #socialism

This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#people #social-anxiety #socialism

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. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#five #hundred #intellectual #intellectual development #least