#socialists

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#academic #cannot #decide #differences #economics

Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist. ↗

— Martin Niemoller

#came #did #i #out #socialist

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#claim #exercised #governments #his #history

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#allowed #already #control #enjoys #fact

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. ↗

— Steve Wynn

#afraid #businesses #everybody #except #government

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#after #became #beginning #century #course

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#crises #defend #great #historical #should

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property. ↗

— Johann Most

#commonwealth #communists #convinced #establishment #improvement

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #bolsheviks #bridges #build #built

In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#favor #institute #keep #maintenance #matter