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href="/wiki/File:Sesel_map_of_socialist_states.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sesel_map_of_socialist_states.PNG/220px-Sesel_map_of_socialist_states.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="102" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sesel_map_of_socialist_states.PNG/330px-Sesel_map_of_socialist_states.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Sesel_map_of_socialist_states.PNG/440px-Sesel_map_of_socialist_states.PNG 2x" data-file-width="1357" data-file-height="628" /></a><figcaption>Map of Socialist Countries</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Socialism">Socialism</a></b> is a range of <a href="/wiki/Economic_system" title="Economic system">economic</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_system" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:social system">social systems</a> characterised by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_ownership" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:social ownership">social ownership</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Means_of_production" title="Means of production">means of production</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/workers%27_self-management" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:workers' self-management">workers' self-management</a>, as well as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/political_theories" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:political theories">political theories</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/political_movement" class="extiw" title="w:political movement">movements</a> associated with them. Social ownership can be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_ownership" class="extiw" title="w:Public ownership">public</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_owbership" class="extiw" title="w:Collective owbership">collective</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cooperative_ownership" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:cooperative ownership">cooperative ownership</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/citizen_ownership" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:citizen ownership">citizen ownership</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/equity" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:equity">equity</a>. There are many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/varieties_of_socialism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:varieties of socialism">varieties of socialism</a> and there is no single definition encapsulating all of them, with social ownership being the common element shared by its various forms. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="A">A</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Socialism the worst of all enemies of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a> because, if it could fulfil what it promises, it would render such a service to the world that the interests of freedom would pale, and mankind would carry over its allegiance to the benefactor who had a higher claim on its <a href="/wiki/Gratitude" title="Gratitude">gratitude</a>. ... This century has seen the growth of the worst enemy freedom has ever had to encounter—Socialism. Strong, because it solves a problem <a href="/wiki/Political_economy" title="Political economy">pol[itical] economy</a> has, until now, failed to solve. How to provide that the increase of <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a> shall not be at the expense of its distribution. ... Can only be realised by a tremendous <a href="/wiki/Despotism" title="Despotism">despotism</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton" title="John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton">Lord Acton</a>, private notes, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, <i>Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis</i> (1952), p. 122</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a> gave all things in common for the use of all; usurpation created private rights. <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">Property</a> hath no rights. The earth is the Lord's, and we are his offspring. The pagans hold earth as <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">property</a>. They do <a href="/wiki/Blasphemy" title="Blasphemy">blaspheme</a> <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ambrose_of_Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambrose of Milan">Ambrose of Milan</a>, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cry_for_Justice" title="The Cry for Justice">The Cry for Justice</a></i> (1915), p. 397</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is not the invention of an individual. It is essentially the outcome of economic and social conditions. The evils that <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">Capitalism</a> brings differ in intensity in different countries, but, the root cause of the trouble once discerned, the remedy is seen to be the same by thoughtful men and women. The cause is the private ownership of the means of life; the remedy is public ownership. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clement_Attlee" title="Clement Attlee">Clement Attlee</a>, <i>The Labour Party in Perspective</i> (Left Book Club, 1937), p. 15</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine of Hippo</a>, Exposition of Psalm 147, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cry_for_Justice" title="The Cry for Justice">The Cry for Justice</a></i> (1915), p. 398</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B">B</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bastiat.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Bastiat.jpg/220px-Bastiat.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Bastiat.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="318" data-file-height="375" /></a><figcaption>Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. ~ <a href="/wiki/Frederic_Bastiat" class="mw-redirect" title="Frederic Bastiat">Frederic Bastiat</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>We are convinced that <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> without socialism is <a href="/wiki/Privilege" title="Privilege">privilege</a>, <a href="/wiki/Injustice" title="Injustice">injustice</a>; and that socialism without liberty is <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cruelty" title="Cruelty">brutality</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Bakunin" title="Mikhail Bakunin">Mikhail Bakunin</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/various/reasons-of-state.htm">"Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism"</a>, presented by Bakunin as a <i>Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom</i>, at the League's first congress held in Geneva (September 1867).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by <a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">government</a>, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_education" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:state education">state education</a>. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_religion" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:state religion">state religion</a>. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced <a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">equality</a>. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat" title="Frédéric Bastiat">Frédéric Bastiat</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.friesian.com/quotes.htm"><i>The Law</i></a> (1850)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>You would oppose <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a> to socialism. But it is the law which socialism invokes. It aspires to legal, not extra-legal plunder…. You wish to prevent it from taking any part in the making of laws. You would keep it outside the Legislative Palace. In this you will not succeed, I venture to prophesy, so long as legal plunder is the basis of the legislation within.</p><p>It is absolutely necessary that this question of legal plunder should be determined, and there are only three solutions of it:—</p><p>1. When the few plunder the many.<br />2. When everybody plunders everybody else.<br />3. When nobody plunders anybody.</p><p>Partial plunder, universal plunder, absence of plunder, amongst these we have to make our choice. The law can only produce one of these results.</p><p>Partial plunder.—This is the system which prevailed so long as the elective privilege was partial; a system which is resorted to, to avoid the invasion of socialism.</p><p>Universal plunder.—We have been threatened by this system when the elective privilege has become universal; the masses having conceived the idea of making law, on the principle of legislators who had preceded them.</p><p>Absence of plunder.—This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, conciliation, and of good sense.</p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat" title="Frédéric Bastiat">Frédéric Bastiat</a>, <i>Essays on Political Economy</i> (c. 1850s), part 4, "The Law", p. 20</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialists take over from <a href="/wiki/Bourgeois" class="mw-redirect" title="Bourgeois">bourgeois</a> <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalist</a> society its materialism, its atheism, its cheap prophets, its hostility against the spirit and all spiritual life, its restless striving for success and amusement, its personal selfishness, its incapacity for interior recollection. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Berdyaev" title="Nikolai Berdyaev">Nikolai Berdyaev</a>, <i>The End of Our Time</i> (1919), as translated by Donald Atwater (1933), p. 93</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It appears that liberty is bound up with imperfection, with a right to imperfection. Socialism leads to the same type of <a href="/wiki/Authoritarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Authoritarian">authoritarian</a> state as <a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">Theocracy</a>. ... One must choose: either Socialism or liberty of spirit, the liberty of man's conscience. ... Socialism uses a "sacred" authority and establishes a "sacred" society in which there is no place for the "lay," for the free, for choice, for the unrestrained activity of human forces. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Berdyaev" title="Nikolai Berdyaev">Nikolai Berdyaev</a>, <i>The End of Our Time</i> (1919), as translated by Donald Atwater (1933), pp. 188-189</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Socialism or Barbarism!" was the cry of the late <a href="/wiki/19th_century" title="19th century">nineteenth</a> and early <a href="/wiki/20th_century" title="20th century">twentieth centuries</a>, but in the age of the <a href="/wiki/Anthropocene" title="Anthropocene">Anthropocene</a>, when <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a>’s contradictions are fully playing out on a planetary scale, this phrase today would have to be recast as "Socialism or Ecological Collapse!" <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Best" title="Steven Best">Steven Best</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.all-creatures.org/lifestyle/img/failed-species.pdf">Failed Species: The Rise and Fall of the Human Empire</a>". <i>Romanian Journal of Artistic Creativity</i>. 9 (2). (2021).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is only one hope for mankind — and that is <a href="/wiki/Democratic_socialism" title="Democratic socialism">democratic Socialism</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan" title="Aneurin Bevan">Aneurin Bevan</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1951/apr/23/mr-aneurin-bevan-statement">Resignation speech</a> in the House of Commons (23 April 1951)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our main case is and must remain that in a modern complex society it is impossible to get rational order by leaving things to private economic adventure. Therefore I am a Socialist. I believe in public ownership. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan" title="Aneurin Bevan">Aneurin Bevan</a>, speech to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool (October 1959), quoted in Michael Foot, <i>Aneurin Bevan: A Biography. Volume II: 1945–1960</i> (1973), p. 647 and Ben Pimlott, <i>Harold Wilson</i> (1993), p. 230</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let me hear that dirty word <i>Socialism</i>. <ul><li>Sen. Jay Billington Bulworth in <i><a href="/wiki/Bulworth" title="Bulworth">Bulworth</a></i> (1998) written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Beatty" class="extiw" title="w:Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its best, Socialism corresponds most closely to an existence that is both rational and moral. It stands for co-operation, not confrontation; for fellowship, not fear. It stands for equality, not because it wants people to be the same but because only through equality in our economic circumstances can our individuality develop properly. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>, in his maiden speech as MP for Sedgefield (6 July 1983) as quoted in <i>Hansard</i>, House of Commons, 6th Series, vol. 45, col. 316</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialists propose to supplant the competitive planning of capitalism with a highly <a href="/wiki/Centralisation" title="Centralisation">centralized</a> <a href="/wiki/Planned_economy" title="Planned economy">planned economy</a>. Our aim is frankly international and not narrowly <a href="/wiki/Patriotism" title="Patriotism">patriotic</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" class="extiw" title="w:Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a> please notice), but I cannot here discuss socialism's international policies. If we gained control of the <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">American Government</a>, we would probably begin with a complete revision of the <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States">national governmental system</a>. We would do one of two things. We would write an amendment to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution">Constitution</a> giving the Federal Government the right to regulate all private <a href="/wiki/Business" title="Business">business</a> and to enter into any business which it deemed proper, or we would abolish the Constitution altogether and give the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">National Congress</a> the power to interpret the people's will subject only to certain general principles of <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">free speech</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_assembly" title="Freedom of assembly">free assemblage</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Blanshard" class="extiw" title="w:Paul Blanshard">Paul Blanshard</a>, "Socialist and Capitalist Planning", <i>The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science</i> (July 1932), p. 10</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If production is at the root of capitalist exploitation, to change the <a href="/wiki/Mode_of_production" title="Mode of production">mode of production</a> would merely change the mode of exploitation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfredo_M._Bonanno" title="Alfredo M. Bonanno">Alfredo M. Bonanno</a>, <i>Armed Joy</i> (1977)</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Murray_Bookchin.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Murray_Bookchin.JPG/220px-Murray_Bookchin.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="326" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Murray_Bookchin.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="273" data-file-height="405" /></a><figcaption>If we are to avoid the mistakes in over one hundred years of proletarian socialism, if we are to really achieve a liberatory movement, not simply in terms of <a href="/wiki/Economic" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic">economic</a> questions but in terms of every aspect of life, we would have to turn to anarchism because it alone posed the problem, not merely of class domination but hierarchical domination, and it alone posed the question, not simply of economic exploitation, but exploitation in every sphere of life. ~ <a href="/wiki/Murray_Bookchin" title="Murray Bookchin">Murray Bookchin</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>If we are to avoid the mistakes in over one hundred years of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_socialism" class="extiw" title="w:Proletarian socialism">proletarian socialism</a>, if we are to really achieve a liberatory movement, not simply in terms of <a href="/wiki/Economic" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic">economic</a> questions but in terms of every aspect of life, we would have to turn to anarchism because it alone posed the problem, not merely of <a href="/wiki/Class_conflict" title="Class conflict">class domination</a> but <a href="/wiki/Hierarchy" title="Hierarchy">hierarchical</a> <a href="/wiki/Domination" title="Domination">domination</a>, and it alone posed the question, not simply of economic exploitation, but exploitation in every sphere of life. And it was that growing awareness, that we had to go beyond classism into hierarchy, and beyond exploitation into domination, that led me into anarchism, and to a commitment to an anarchist outlook. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murray_Bookchin" title="Murray Bookchin">Murray Bookchin</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alexpeak.com/art/films/aia/">Anarchism in America</a></i>, directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher (15 January 1983)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A Gallup poll this month found that Democrats are warming up to the idea of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">socialism</a> — or at least to the word. While 57 percent of Democrats polled said they view socialism positively, only 47 percent said the same of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism,</a> down from 56 percent in 2016... When Americans say they view socialism one way or the other, what exactly do they have in mind?...Clarifying exactly what “socialism” means once and for all likely won’t happen anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean that voters who are attracted to democratic socialist politicians such as <a href="/wiki/Sen._Bernie_Sanders" class="mw-redirect" title="Sen. Bernie Sanders">Sen. Bernie Sanders</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House of Representatives">House</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez" title="Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> don’t know what they’re getting into. Proposals to wipe out so-called right-to-work laws, to make college tuition-free or to provide universal health care are resonating with those supporters...<br /><a href="/wiki/Working_class_in_the_United_States" title="Working class in the United States">Working Americans</a> deserve a say in how the country’s vast wealth will be used, and that will be possible only when <a href="/wiki/Inequality" class="mw-redirect" title="Inequality">inequality</a> is reduced, corporate and big-money donors are banished from politics, and lawmakers are truly accountable to the people. It’s not so much to ask. But democratic socialists are the only ones asking. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/19/its-time-reclaim-socialism-dirty-word-category">It's Time to Reclaim 'Socialism' From the Dirty-Word Category, Elizabeth Bruenig, <i>The Washington Post/CommonDreams</i></a>, August 19, 2018</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="C">C</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aime_Cesaire_2003.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Aime_Cesaire_2003.jpg/220px-Aime_Cesaire_2003.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="316" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Aime_Cesaire_2003.jpg/330px-Aime_Cesaire_2003.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Aime_Cesaire_2003.jpg/440px-Aime_Cesaire_2003.jpg 2x" data-file-width="454" data-file-height="653" /></a><figcaption>Usurping bureaucracies ... have achieved the pitiable wonder of transforming into a nightmare what humanity has for so long cherished as a dream: socialism. ~ <a href="/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_C%C3%A9saire" title="Aimé Césaire">Aimé Césaire</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>'Socialism is only a degenerate form of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>. In fact, it preserves a belief in the finality of <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> which betrays life and nature, which substitutes ideal ends for real ends, and contributes to enervating both the will and the imagination. Socialism is <a href="/wiki/Nihilism" title="Nihilism">nihilistic</a>, in the henceforth precise sense that <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Nietzsche</a> confers on the word. A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists. In this sense, all forms of socialism are manifestations, degraded once again, of Christian decadence. <ul><li>- <a href="/wiki/Albert_Camus" title="Albert Camus">Albert Camus</a>, 'Nietzsche and Nihilism', in 'The Rebel', 1951.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe Socialism is the grandest theory ever presented, and I am sure it will someday rule the world. Then we will have attained the Millennium. … Then men will be content to work for the general welfare and share their riches with their neighbors. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie" title="Andrew Carnegie">Andrew Carnegie</a> in <i>New York Times</i> (1 January 1885) "A Millionaire Socialist"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>With the exception of <a href="/wiki/Yugoslavia" title="Yugoslavia">Yugoslavia</a>, in numerous <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">European</a> countries—in the name of socialism—usurping <a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy" title="Bureaucracy">bureaucracies</a> that are cut off from the people (bureaucracies from which it is now proven that nothing can be expected) have achieved the pitiable wonder of transforming into a <a href="/wiki/Nightmare" title="Nightmare">nightmare</a> what humanity has for so long cherished as a dream: socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aim%C3%A9_C%C3%A9saire" title="Aimé Césaire">Aimé Césaire</a>, Letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Thorez" class="extiw" title="w:Maurice Thorez">Maurice Thorez</a> resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956, as translated by Chike Jeffers</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The consistent <a href="/wiki/Anarchism" title="Anarchism">anarchist</a>, then, should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of <a href="/wiki/Capital" title="Capital">capital</a> by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Noam Chomsky</a>, "Notes on Anarchism," in <i>Daniel Guérin Anarchism: From Theory to Practice</i> (1970)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The inherent vice of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, speech in the House of Commons (22 October 1945)</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Socialists_in_Union_Square,_N.Y.C._(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Socialists_in_Union_Square%2C_N.Y.C._%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Socialists_in_Union_Square%2C_N.Y.C._%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Socialists_in_Union_Square%2C_N.Y.C._%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Socialists_in_Union_Square%2C_N.Y.C._%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Socialists_in_Union_Square%2C_N.Y.C._%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Socialists_in_Union_Square%2C_N.Y.C._%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4680" data-file-height="2992" /></a><figcaption>The inherent vice of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ~ <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg/220px-Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg/330px-Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg/440px-Sir_Winston_S_Churchill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2730" data-file-height="3407" /></a><figcaption>Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. ~ <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Socialism is a <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">philosophy</a> of <a href="/wiki/Failure" title="Failure">failure</a>, the creed of <a href="/wiki/Ignorance" title="Ignorance">ignorance</a>, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of <a href="/wiki/Misery" title="Misery">misery</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland (28 May 1948)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All possessions are by nature unrighteous when a man possess them for personal advantage as being entirely his own, and does not bring them into the common stock for those in need. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clement_of_Alexandria" title="Clement of Alexandria">Clement of Alexandria</a>, <i>The Rich Man's Salvation</i>, p. 337</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Democratic socialist <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders" title="Bernie Sanders">Bernie Sanders</a> received the most votes in the first three primary elections. After <a href="/wiki/Centrism" title="Centrism">centrist</a> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> scored his first primary win, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee" class="extiw" title="w:Democratic National Committee">DNC</a> consolidated the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> establishment around him....The party bosses likely wanted to ensure that Sanders would not upend the corporate order... At the March 15 debate with Biden, Sanders asked the rhetorical question: Where is the power in America? He then answered, “Who owns the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_in_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:Media in the United States">media</a>? Who owns the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States" title="Economy of the United States">economy</a>? Who owns the legislative process? Why do we give tax breaks to <a href="/wiki/Billionaire" title="Billionaire">billionaires</a> and not raise the <a href="/wiki/Minimum_wage" title="Minimum wage">minimum wage</a>? Why do we pump up the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_oil_industry" class="extiw" title="w:American oil industry">oil industry</a> while a half a million people are <a href="/wiki/Homelessness" title="Homelessness">homeless</a> in America?”... When he defines himself as a democratic socialist, Sanders said, he means “Economic rights are <a href="/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights">human rights</a>.” The core of his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_for_All" class="extiw" title="w:Medicare for All">Medicare for All</a> plan is, “Health care is a human right.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Cohn" title="Marjorie Cohn">Marjorie Cohn</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://truthout.org/articles/is-the-dnc-once-again-orchestrating-the-defeat-of-a-socialist-candidate/">Is the DNC Once Again Orchestrating the Defeat of a Socialist Candidate?, Marjorie Cohn, <i>Truthout</i></a> (16 March 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I became a Socialist, as many others did in those days, on grounds of <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">decency</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aesthetics" title="Aesthetics">aesthetic</a> sensibility. I wanted to do the decent thing by my fellow-men. I could not see why every human being should not have as good a chance in life as I, and I hated the ugliness both of poverty and of the money-grubbing way of life that I saw around me. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/G._D._H._Cole" title="G. D. H. Cole">G. D. H. Cole</a>, <i>British Labour Movement-Retrospect and Prospect</i>, Ralph Fox Memorial Lecture, April 1951, Fabian Special, No. 8 (1952), quoted in G. D. H. Cole, <i>Early Pamphlets and Assessment, Volume 1</i> (2011), p. 56</li></ul></li> <li>Since the foundation of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Republics</a>, the States of the world have been divided into two camps: the camp of Capitalism and the camp of Socialism. There, in the camp of Capitalism: national hate and <a href="/wiki/Social_inequality" title="Social inequality">inequality</a>, colonial <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> and chauvinism, national oppression and massacres, brutalities and imperalistic wars. Here, in the camp of Socialism: reciprocal confidence and peace, national <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> and <a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">equality</a>, the pacific co-existence and fraternal collaboration of peoples. The attempts made by the capitalistic world during the past ten years to decide the question of nationalities by bringing together the principle of the free development of peoples with a system of exploitation of man by man have been fruitless. In addition, the number of national conflicts becomes more and more confusing, even menacing the capitalistic rigime. The <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a> has proven itself incapable of realizing a harmonious collaboration of the peoples. It is only in the camp of the Soviets; it is only under the conditions of the dictatorship of the proletariat that has grouped around itself the majority of the people, that it has been possible to eliminate the oppression of nationalities, to create an atmosphere of mutual confidence and to establish the basis of a fraternal collaboration of peoples. <ul><li>Preamble of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Soviet_Constitution" class="extiw" title="w:1924 Soviet Constitution">Constitution of the Soviet Union</a> (1924), as quoted in Andrew, M. (1931). <i>Twelve Leading Constitutions with Their Historical Backgrounds</i>. Compton, Calif, American University Series</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="D">D</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_flag_waving.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Red_flag_waving.svg/220px-Red_flag_waving.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Red_flag_waving.svg/330px-Red_flag_waving.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Red_flag_waving.svg/440px-Red_flag_waving.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="249" data-file-height="268" /></a><figcaption>The issue is Socialism versus <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">Capitalism</a>. I am for Socialism because I am for <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs" title="Eugene V. Debs">Eugene V. Debs</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eugene_V._Debs,_1907.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Eugene_V._Debs%2C_1907.jpg/220px-Eugene_V._Debs%2C_1907.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Eugene_V._Debs%2C_1907.jpg/330px-Eugene_V._Debs%2C_1907.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Eugene_V._Debs%2C_1907.jpg/440px-Eugene_V._Debs%2C_1907.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1620" data-file-height="1816" /></a><figcaption>Ignorance alone stands in the way of Socialist success. The capitalist parties understand this and use their resources to prevent the workers from seeing the light. ~ <a href="/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs" title="Eugene V. Debs">Eugene V. Debs</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The problem is that <a href="/wiki/Capitalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalists">capitalists</a> typically don't know how to divide the pie well and <a href="/wiki/Socialists" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialists">socialists</a> typically don't know how to grow it well... Resources need to be redistributed for the purpose of providing <a href="/wiki/Equal_opportunity" title="Equal opportunity">equal opportunity</a> to the vast majority of Americans. This can be done through increasing taxes on the wealthy, further taxing societally harmful things like <a href="/wiki/Pollution" title="Pollution">pollution</a>, and develop public-private partnerships that link business goals with societal goals. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Dalio" class="extiw" title="w:Ray Dalio">Ray Dalio</a> quoted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Insider" class="extiw" title="w:Business Insider">Business Insider</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ray-dalio-on-how-to-save-failing-capitalism-2019-4"><i>Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America, and we need to take 5 specific actions to save it, </i>Richard Feloni</a> (4 April 2019)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everybody knows that <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">this system</a> of mass <a href="/wiki/Exploitation" title="Exploitation">exploitation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oppression" title="Oppression">oppression</a> can't continue. More and more people are using "socialism" as the name for the solution. But what do they mean when they say "socialism"? The version presented here begins with the abolition of the tyranny of the <a href="/wiki/Market" title="Market">market</a> and the emancipation of the diverse multinational <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working class</a>. Instead of being dictated to by a system rigged in favor of billionaires, capitalists, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/landlords" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:landlords">landlords</a>, we the people should determine what we need and coordinate plan for producing the goods and services necessary to meet those demands. Workers make the world run, workers should run the world! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jodi_Dean" title="Jodi Dean">Jodi Dean</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Puryear" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Eugene Puryear">Eugene Puryear</a> et al, <i>Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States</i>. (2022) p. xiii <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0991030392" title="Special:BookSources/978-0991030392">ISBN 978-0991030392</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a>. We have been cursed with the reign of <a href="/wiki/Gold" title="Gold">gold</a> long enough. <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">Money</a> constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society — we are on the eve of universal <a href="/wiki/Change" title="Change">change</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs" title="Eugene V. Debs">Eugene V. Debs</a>, in an open letter to the American Railway Union, <i>Chicago Railway Times</i> (1 January 1897)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ignorance alone stands in the way of Socialist success. The capitalist parties understand this and use their resources to prevent the workers from seeing the light. Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery. Capitalist parties stand for Slavery and Night. The Socialist Party is the herald of <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">Freedom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Light" title="Light">Light</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_Debs" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugene Debs">Eugene Debs</a>, "The Socialist Party and the Working Class" (1904), in <i>Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought, Volume 2: Reconstruction to the Present</i>, p. 288</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Len_Deighton" title="Len Deighton">Len Deighton</a>, quoting an anonymous Czechoslovakian joke in the 1960s, in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral_in_Berlin" class="extiw" title="w:Funeral in Berlin">Funeral in Berlin</a></i> (1964), p. 145.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The so-called socialist ownership is a disguise for the real ownership by the political bureaucracy. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milovan_Djilas" class="extiw" title="w:Milovan Djilas"> Milovan Djilas</a>, as quoted in <i>The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia</i>, Robert V. Daniels, New Haven-London, Yale University Press (2007) p. 262</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Democracy has so disappeared in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> that there are some subjects that cannot even be discussed. The essence of the democratic process is free discussion. There was a time, when men were not allowed to talk of <a href="/wiki/Universal_suffrage" title="Universal suffrage">universal suffrage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a> for <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Abolitionism" title="Abolitionism">freedom for Negro slaves</a>. Today communism is the dirty word and socialism is suspect. ... In this state, and in our time, occurred one of the worst blows to the democratic process which our nation has suffered. <a href="/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy" title="Joseph McCarthy">Senator McCarthy</a> succeeded in making America afraid to discuss socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois" title="W. E. B. Du Bois">W. E. B. Du Bois</a>, Speech at University of Wisconsin, 1960, as reproduced in <i>Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961</i>, p. 303</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let me examine the alleged "distinction from capitalism" characteristic of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and see whether it isn't a distinction from a certain stage of capitalism rather than from capitalism as a whole. The determining factor in analyzing the class nature of a society is not whether the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class or are state-owned, but whether the means of production ... are monopolized and alienated from the direct producers. The Soviet Government occupies in relation to the whole economic system the position which a capitalist occupies in relation to a single enterprise. ... "Bureaucratic state socialism" is an irrational expression behind which there exists the real economic relation of <a href="/wiki/State_capitalism" title="State capitalism">state-capitalist</a>-<a href="/wiki/Exploitation" title="Exploitation">exploiter</a> to the propertyless exploited. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raya_Dunayevskaya" title="Raya Dunayevskaya">Raya Dunayevskaya</a>, "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society" (1941), in <i>Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution</i>, p. 210</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="E">E</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: E"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>We face a probable future of <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons" title="Nuclear weapons">nuclear-armed</a> states warring over a scarcity of resources; and that scarcity is largely the consequence of capitalism itself. For the first time in history, our prevailing form of life has the power not simply to breed <a href="/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a> and spread cultural cretinism, drive us into war or herd us into <a href="/wiki/Concentration_camp" title="Concentration camp">labour camps</a>, but to wipe us from the planet. Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism. The traditional <a href="/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics">leftist</a> slogan "Socialism or barbarism" was never more grimly apposite. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Eagleton" title="Terry Eagleton">Terry Eagleton</a>, <i>Why Marx was Right</i> (2011), p. 8</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Historic tradition is, so to speak, of yesterday; nowhere have we really overcome what <a href="/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen" title="Thorstein Veblen">Thorstein Veblen</a> called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Veblen#Veblen's_economics_and_politics" class="extiw" title="w:Thorstein Veblen">the predatory phase</a>" of human development. The observable economic facts belong to that phase and even such laws as we can derive from them are not applicable to other phases. Since the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development, economic science in its present state can throw little light on the socialist society of the future. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm">"Why Socialism?", an essay originally published in the first issue of <i>Monthly Review</i></a> (May 1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is directed towards a social-ethical end. Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which to attain certain ends. But the ends themselves are conceived by personalities with lofty ethical ideals and—if these ends are not stillborn, but vital and vigorous—are adopted and carried forward by those many human beings who, half unconsciously, determine the slow evolution of society. For these reasons, we should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems; and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, "Why Socialism?", an essay originally published in the first issue of <i>Monthly Review</i> (May 1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labour...I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, "Why Socialism?", an essay originally published in the first issue of <i>Monthly Review</i> (May 1949)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Production" title="Production">Production</a> is carried on for <a href="/wiki/Profit" title="Profit">profit</a>, not for use. There is no provision that all those able and willing to work will always be in a position to find <a href="/wiki/Employment" title="Employment">employment</a>; an “army of unemployed” almost always exists. The worker is constantly in fear of losing his job. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a> of individuals. This crippling of individuals social consciousness, I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Socialism%3F" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Why Socialism?">Why Socialism?</a></i> (1949) <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Review" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Monthly Review">Monthly Review</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm">[1]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Since unemployed and poorly paid workers do not provide a profitable market, the production of consumers’ goods is restricted, and great hardship is the consequence. Technological progress frequently results in more unemployment rather than in an easing of the burden of work for all. The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation and utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions. Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals which I mentioned before. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Socialism%3F" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Why Socialism?">Why Socialism?</a></i> (1949) <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Review" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Monthly Review">Monthly Review</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm">[2]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:History of the socialist movement in the United States">socialism spreading in the United States</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, off-the-cuff speech to Republican leaders, Custer State Park, South Dakota (June 11, 19530; in Robert J. Donovan, <i>Eisenhower: The Inside Story</i> (1956), p. 336. At his press conference in Washington, D.C., June 17, 1953, President Eisenhower was asked what he meant by "creeping socialism". Donovan writes, "He replied: continued Federal expansion of the T.V.A. He reiterated for what he said was the thousandth time that he would not destroy the T.V.A., but he said that he thought it was socialistic to continue putting money paid by all the taxpayers into a single region which could then attract industry away from other areas" (p. 336). See also <i>Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953</i>, p. 433</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The lies peddled about <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>’s past make US <a href="/wiki/Aggression" title="Aggression">US aggression</a> against it possible in the present. It is worth summing up some of these key <a href="/wiki/Lying" title="Lying">lies</a>: <br /><i>Venezuela was once prosperous and ruined by <a class="mw-selflink selflink">socialism</a></i>. In fact, Venezuela was an unequal country in which most people were poor despite the country’s oil wealth, which had generated huge export revenues since the 1920s.<br /><i>Venezuela was a <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a> before Chavismo.</i> In fact, Venezuela’s democracy was a gravely flawed system in which politicians alternated holding power according to an undemocratic agreement, and rammed austerity down the throats of Venezuela’s poor by committing <a href="/wiki/Massacre" title="Massacre">massacres</a>, such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracazo" class="extiw" title="w:Caracazo">Caracazo</a>...Chávez... came to power through an election in 1998, and afterward made changes through extensive democratic processes. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fair.org/home/the-media-myth-of-once-prosperous-and-democratic-venezuela-before-chavez/">The Media Myth of ‘Once Prosperous’ and Democratic Venezuela Before Chávez, Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur, <i>Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting</i> (FAIR),</a> (26 August 2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="F">F</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: F"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Otroci.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Otroci.jpg/220px-Otroci.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Otroci.jpg/330px-Otroci.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Otroci.jpg/440px-Otroci.jpg 2x" data-file-width="463" data-file-height="432" /></a><figcaption>Slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fitzhugh" class="extiw" title="w:George Fitzhugh"> George Fitzhugh</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_fence_at_the_old_GULag_in_Perm-36.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/The_fence_at_the_old_GULag_in_Perm-36.JPG/220px-The_fence_at_the_old_GULag_in_Perm-36.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/The_fence_at_the_old_GULag_in_Perm-36.JPG/330px-The_fence_at_the_old_GULag_in_Perm-36.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/The_fence_at_the_old_GULag_in_Perm-36.JPG/440px-The_fence_at_the_old_GULag_in_Perm-36.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="1728" /></a><figcaption>A society which is socialist cannot also be democratic. ~ <a href="/wiki/Milton_Friedman" title="Milton Friedman">Milton Friedman</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">Slavery</a> is a form, and the very best form, of socialism. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fitzhugh" class="extiw" title="w:George Fitzhugh"> George Fitzhugh</a>, <i>Sociology for the South, or, the Failure of Free Society</i>, Richmond: VA, Morris (1854) pp. 27-28</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The first thing that happened when the European powers went to war was the collapse of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_International" class="extiw" title="w:Socialist International">Socialist International</a>. No European socialist party had called the working class out in a general strike against the war and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" class="extiw" title="w:Social Democratic Party of Germany">SPD</a> (by far <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>’s most powerful socialist party) had in early August 1914 unanimously voted its government war credits; the French followed suit. Socialist workers were aligned by their parties behind the war effort of each European government and socialist <a href="/wiki/Internationalism" title="Internationalism">internationalism</a> revealed itself to be a myth. But the situation in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> proved to be radically different. <ul><li>Giuseppe Finaldi, <i>Mussolini and Italian Fascism</i>, New York and London, Routledge, 2014, pp. 24-25</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[<a href="/wiki/Napoleon_III" title="Napoleon III">Louis Napoleon</a>] is a socialist and socialism is the new fashionable name of <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a>. ... [His] Queen is providing nurseries and nurses for the children of working women, just as we <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southerners</a> do for our negro women and children. It is a great economy. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fitzhugh" class="extiw" title="w:George Fitzhugh"> George Fitzhugh</a>, <i>Sociology for the South, or, the Failure of Free Society</i>, Richmond: VA, Morris (1854) p. 42</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a> argued that all human <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a> was dominated by a tussle for the wealth between classes, one of which took the wealth, and used it to exploit the others. As <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> and <a href="/wiki/Technology" title="Technology">technology</a> developed, so one exploiting class was replaced by another that used the resources of society more efficiently. The necessity for <a href="/wiki/Exploitation" title="Exploitation">exploitation</a>, he observed, had ended with capitalism. If the working class, the masses who cooperate to produce the wealth, could seize the means of production from the <a href="/wiki/Capitalist_class" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalist class">capitalist class</a>, they could put an end to exploitation forever and run society on the lines of the famous slogan: ‘From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.’ <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Foot" title="Paul Foot">Paul Foot</a>, <i>Why You Should Be a Socialist</i> (1977), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1990/case/chap1.htm">Chapter 1</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the ideal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/socialist_state" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:socialist state">socialist state</a>, power will not attract power freaks. People who make decisions will show no slightest bias towards their own interests. There will be no way for a clever man to bend the institutions to serve his own ends. And the rivers will run uphill. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Friedman" class="extiw" title="w:David D. Friedman"> David D. Friedman </a>, <i>The Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to Radical Capitalism</i>, chap: "Buckshot for a Socialist Friend" (1973) p. 108</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[A] society which is socialist cannot also be democratic, in the sense of guaranteeing individual freedom. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Milton_Friedman" title="Milton Friedman">Milton Friedman</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/capitalism-socialism-and-democracy/">"Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: A Symposium"</a> (1 April 1978), edited by William Barrett, <i>Commentary</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I had imagined that socialists were people that rose above the meaningless customs and <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">morality</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>. I imagined them to be <a href="/wiki/Courageous" class="mw-redirect" title="Courageous">courageous</a> fighters with no interest in so-called fame and honor and social <a href="/wiki/Reputation" title="Reputation">reputation</a>. I thought they were <a href="/wiki/Warriors" class="mw-redirect" title="Warriors">warriors</a> <a href="/wiki/Fighting" title="Fighting">fighting</a> to destroy the perverted society of today and striving to create an ideal society. However, even though the denounce the irrational and hypocritical aspects of the society, and pretend that they are indifferent to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_criticism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:social criticism">social criticisms</a> and to fame and reputation, they in fact governed by and are concerned about the standards of the mundane society. They seek to adorn themselves with conventional ornaments, and take upon themselves conventional values. Just as generals take pride in the medals on their chests, socialists covet records of arrests in order to earn their bread. They take pride in this. When I realized this fact I gave up on them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kaneko_Fumiko" title="Kaneko Fumiko">Kaneko Fumiko</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-res-kaneko-fumiko-because-i-wanted-to">Because I Wanted To</a></i> (1923–5), compiled and partially translated by Max Res, who is a part of Viscera Print Goods & Ephemera</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I was gradually beginning to understand how society works. Up until then the true shape of reality had been thinly veiled, but now it all began to become clear. I understood why someone poor like myself could never study and get ahead in this world, why, too, the rich got richer and the powerful were able to do anything they liked. I knew that what socialism preached was true. But I could not accept socialist thought in its entirety. Socialism seeks to change society for the sake of the oppressed masses, but is what it would accomplish truly for their welfare? Socialism would create a social upheaval “for the masses,” and the masses would stake their lives in the struggle together with those who had risen up on their behalf. But what would the ensuing change mean for them? Power would be in the hands of the leaders, and the order of the new society would be based on that power. The masses would become slaves allover again to that power. What is revolution, then, but the replacing of one power with another? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kaneko_Fumiko" title="Kaneko Fumiko">Kaneko Fumiko</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i>The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman</i>. M.E. Sharpe. 1991. pp. 236-237. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87332-801-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87332-801-2">ISBN 978-0-87332-801-2</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Prison+Memoirs+of+a+Japanese+Woman&rft.date=1991&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3B236-237&rft.pub=M.E.+Sharpe&rft.isbn=978-0-87332-801-2&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Socialism"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> Translated by Jean Inglis</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="G">G</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Throughout much of the twentieth century, state socialism presented an existential challenge to the worst excesses of the free market. The threat posed by Marxist ideologies forced Western governments to expand social safety nets to protect workers from the unpredictable but inevitable booms and busts of the capitalist economy. After the Berlin Wall fell, many celebrated the triumph of the West, consigning socialist ideas to the dustbin of history. But for all its faults, state socialism provided an important foil for capitalism. It was in response to a global discourse of social and economic rights—a discourse that appealed not only to the progressive populations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America but also to many men and women in Western Europe and North America—that politicians agreed to improve working conditions for wage laborers as well as create social programs for children, the poor, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled, mitigating exploitation and the growth of income inequality. Although there were important antecedents in the 1980s, once state socialism collapsed, capitalism shook off the constraints of market regulation and income redistribution. Without the looming threat of a rival superpower, the last thirty years of global neoliberalism have witnessed a rapid shriveling of social programs that protect citizens from cyclical instability and financial crises and reduce the vast inequality of economic outcomes between those at the top and bottom of the income distribution. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kristen_Ghodsee" title="Kristen Ghodsee">Kristen Ghodsee</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Women_Have_Better_Sex_Under_Socialism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism">Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism</a></i> (2018) p. 3-4</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism will become reality when the Fatherland is free. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm">"Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken"</a>. Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is the doctrine of liberation for the <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working class</a>. It promotes the rise of the fourth class and its incorporation in the political organism of our Fatherland, and is inextricably bound to breaking the present slavery and regaining German freedom. Socialism, therefore, is not merely a matter of the oppressed class, but a matter for everyone, for freeing the <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German people</a> from slavery is the goal of contemporary policy. Socialism gains its true form only through a total fighting brotherhood with the forward-striving energies of a newly awakened <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalism</a>. Without nationalism it is nothing, a phantom, a mere theory, a castle in the sky, a book. With it it is everything, the future, freedom, the fatherland! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm">"Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken"</a>. Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The sin of liberal thinking was to overlook socialism’s nation-building strengths, thereby allowing its energies to go in anti-national directions. The sin of Marxism was to degrade socialism into a question of wages and the stomach, putting it in conflict with the state and its national existence. An understanding of both these facts leads us to a new sense of socialism, which sees its nature as nationalistic, state-building, liberating and constructive. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm">"Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken"</a>. Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is possible only in a state that is united domestically and free internationally. The bourgeoisie and <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a> are responsible for failing to reach both goals, domestic unity and international freedom. No matter how national and social these two forces present themselves, they are the sworn enemies of a socialist national state. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm">"Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken"</a>. Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The value of labor under socialism will be determined by its value to the state, to the whole community. Labor means creating value, not haggling over things. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm">"Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken"</a>. Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What does <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">anti-Semitism</a> have to do with socialism? I would put the question this way: What does the <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jew</a> have to do with socialism? Socialism has to do with labor. When did one ever see him working instead of plundering, stealing and living from the sweat of others? As socialists we are opponents of the Jews because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s goods. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels" title="Joseph Goebbels">Joseph Goebbels</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/haken32.htm">"Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken"</a>. Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher, 1932.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">Democracy</a> is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a>, Speech to the 27th Party Congress, Moscow (25 February 1986)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are living through a National Socialist revolution. We emphasize the term “socialist” because many speak only of a “national” revolution. Dubious, but also wrong. It was not only nationalism that led to the breakthrough. We are proud that German socialism also triumphed. Unfortunately, there are still people among us today who emphasize the word “national” too strongly and who do not want to know anything about the second part of our worldview, which shows that they have also failed to understand the first part. Those who do not want to recognize a German socialism do not have the right to call themselves national. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Hermann Göring</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goering1.htm">"Nationalismus und Sozialismus"</a>. Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1941, pp. 36-49.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Just as nationalism protects a people from outside forces, so socialism serves a people's domestic needs. We want the people's strength to be released within the nation, forging the people once more into a strong block. The individual citizen must again have the sense that, even if he is finds himself in the simplest and lowest position, that his life and opportunities are assured. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Hermann Göring</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goering1.htm">"Nationalismus und Sozialismus"</a>. Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1941, pp. 36-49.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Marxist socialism was degraded to a concern only with pay or the stomach. The bourgeoisie degraded nationalism into barren hyper-patriotism. Both concepts, therefore, must be cleansed and shown to the people anew, in a crystal-clear form. The nationalism of our worldview arrived at the right moment. Our movement seized the concept of socialism from the cowardly Marxists, and tore the concept of nationalism from the cowardly bourgeois parties, throwing both into the melting pot of our worldview, and producing a clear synthesis: German national Socialism. That provided the foundation for the rebuilding of our people. Thus this revolution was National Socialist. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring" title="Hermann Göring">Hermann Göring</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goering1.htm">"Nationalismus und Sozialismus"</a>. Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1941, pp. 36-49.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Che_Guevara_-_ca._1945.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Che_Guevara_-_ca._1945.jpg/220px-Che_Guevara_-_ca._1945.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Che_Guevara_-_ca._1945.jpg/330px-Che_Guevara_-_ca._1945.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Che_Guevara_-_ca._1945.jpg 2x" data-file-width="356" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. ~ <a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Goddess_of_justice.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Goddess_of_justice.jpg/220px-Goddess_of_justice.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Goddess_of_justice.jpg/330px-Goddess_of_justice.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Goddess_of_justice.jpg/440px-Goddess_of_justice.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption>Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppression. ~<a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>[W]herever socialism has teeth, it veers closer to gangsterism because it depends on the use of arbitrary power, either by the state or, in essence, the mob. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg" title="Jonah Goldberg">Jonah Goldberg</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/the-failure-of-the-deal/">"The Failure of the Deal"</a> (15 February 2019), <i>National Review</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>, speech to the Second Economic Seminar of Afro-Asian Solidarity in Algiers, Algeria (24 February 1965)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppression. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Che_Guevara" title="Che Guevara">Che Guevara</a>, speech to the Second Economic Seminar of Afro-Asian Solidarity in Algiers, Algeria (24 February 1965)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="H">H</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: H"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herzen_ge.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Herzen_ge.png/220px-Herzen_ge.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Herzen_ge.png/330px-Herzen_ge.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Herzen_ge.png/440px-Herzen_ge.png 2x" data-file-width="861" data-file-height="1101" /></a><figcaption>Socialism and rationalism are to this day the touchstones of humanity, the rocks which lie in the course of revolution and science. ~ <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Ivanovich_Herzen" class="mw-redirect" title="Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen">Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Socialism proposes to dethrone the brute-god Mammon and to lift humanity into its place. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Keir_Hardie" title="Keir Hardie">Keir Hardie</a>, motion in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:House of Commons of England">House of Commons</a>, 23 April 1901</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>History is one long record of like illustrations. Must our modern civilisation with all its teeming wonders come to a like end? We are reproducing in faithful detail every cause which led to the downfall of the civilisations of other days—Imperialism, taking tribute from conquered races, the accumulation of great fortunes, the development of a population which owns no property, and is always in <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a>. Land has gone out of cultivation and physical deterioration is an alarming fact. An so we Socialists say the system which is producing these results must not be allowed to continue. A system which has robbed religion of its saviour, destroyed handicraft, which awards the palm of success to the unscrupulous, corrupts the press, turns pure women on the streetsm and upright men into mean-spirited time-servers, cannot continue. In the end it is bound to work its own overthrow. Socialism with its promise of freedom, its larger hope for humanity, its triumph of peace over war, its binding of the races of the earth into one all-embracing brotherhood, must prevail. Capitalism is the creed of the dying present; socialism throbs with the life of the days that are to be. It has claimed its martyrs in the past, is claiming them now, will claim them still; but what then? Better to "rebel and die in the twenty worlds sooner than bear the yoke of thwarted life." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Keir_Hardie" title="Keir Hardie">Keir Hardie</a>, <i>From Serfdom to Socialism</i> (1907), p. 103–104</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I've always doubted that the socialists had a leg to stand on intellectually. They have improved their argument somehow, but once you begin to understand that prices are an instrument of communication and guidance which embody more information than we directly have, the whole idea that you can bring about the same order based on the <a href="/wiki/Division_of_labor" title="Division of labor">division of labor</a> by simple direction falls to the ground. Similarly, the idea [that] you can arrange for distributions of incomes which correspond to some conception of merit or need. If you need prices, including the prices of labor, to direct people to go where they are needed, you cannot have another distribution except the one from the market principle. I think that intellectually there is just nothing left of socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek" title="Friedrich Hayek">Friedrich Hayek</a> interviewed by Thomas W. Hazlett, in May of 1977, as published in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reason.com/archives/1992/07/01/the-road-from-serfdom">"The Road to Serfdom, Forseeing the Fall"</a>, in <i>Reason magazine</i> (July 1992)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism assumes that all the available knowledge can be used by a single central authority. It overlooks that the model society which I now prefer to call the extended order which exceeds the perception of any individual mind is based on the utilization of widely dispersed knowledge, and once you are aware that we can achieve that great utilization of available resources only because we utilize the knowledge of millions of men, it becomes clear that the assumption of socialism is that a central authority in command of all this knowledge is just not correct! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek" title="Friedrich Hayek">Friedrich Hayek</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11AXDT5824Y">1985 interview</a> with John O'Sullivan</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism has taught many people that they possess claims irrespective of performance, irrespective of participation. In the light of the morals that produced the extended order of civilisation, socialists in fact incite people to break the law. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek" title="Friedrich Hayek">Friedrich Hayek</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fatal_Conceit" title="The Fatal Conceit">The Fatal Conceit</a></i> (1988), Appendix D: Alienation, Dropouts, And The Claims Of Parasite</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism and rationalism are to this day the touchstones of humanity, the rocks which lie in the course of revolution and science. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Ivanovich_Herzen" class="mw-redirect" title="Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen">Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen</a>, <i>The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen</i>, p. 191</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As we have seen, the historical record is clear that public planning and socialist policy can be effective at delivering rapid economic, technological, and social development. Rediscovering the power of this approach will be essential if Global South governments are to increase their economic sovereignty and mobilize production to ensure decent lives for all. Achieving this objective requires building political movements of the Southern working classes and peasantries powerful enough to replace governments that currently are captured by political factions aligned with national or international capital; reducing reliance on core creditors, currencies, and imports; and establishing South-South alliances capable of withstanding any retaliation. Progressive formations in the core should be prepared to support and defend these movements. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Hickel" title="Jason Hickel">Jason Hickel</a> and Dylan Sullivan, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/capitalism-global-poverty-and-the-case-for-democratic-socialism/">Capitalism, Global Poverty, and the Case for Democratic Socialism</a>." <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Review" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Monthly Review">Monthly Review</a></i> (July 1, 2023)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Only in a socialist system are the interests of the individual, the state and the collective at one.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="mw-redirect" title="Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>, "Report on the Draft Amended Constitution" (1959)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The empirical evidence shows that socialism is an obvious failure. And the cause of socialism's failure is crystal clear: there is almost no private ownership of the means of production, and almost all factors of production are owned in common in precisely the same way that Americans own the <a href="/wiki/Postal_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Postal Service">Postal Service</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hermann_Hoppe" class="extiw" title="w:Hans Hermann Hoppe">Hans Hermann Hoppe</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mises.org/library/intellectual-cover-socialism">Intellectual Cover for Socialism</a>, The Free Market 6, no. 2 (February 1988)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Misesian" class="mw-redirect" title="Misesian">Misesian</a> economics shows that socialism fails because it violates the irrefutable laws of economics-among them the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_exchange" class="extiw" title="w:Law of exchange">law of exchange</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_diminishing_marginal_utility" class="extiw" title="w:Law of diminishing marginal utility">law of diminishing marginal utility</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ricardian" class="mw-redirect" title="Ricardian">Ricardian</a> law of association, the law of price controls, and the quantity theory of money-which can be deduced from the axiom of action by means of applied logic. And thus we can know-beforehand and absolutely-what the consequences of socialism will be wherever it is tried. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hermann_Hoppe" class="extiw" title="w:Hans Hermann Hoppe">Hans Hermann Hoppe</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mises.org/library/intellectual-cover-socialism">Intellectual Cover for Socialism</a>, The Free Market 6, no. 2 (February 1988)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>The true <a href="/wiki/Anarchist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anarchist">Anarchist</a> decries all influences save those of <a href="/wiki/Love" title="Love">love</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">Ideas</a> are his only arms.</p><p>Being an Anarchist I am also a Socialist. Socialism is the antithesis of Anarchy. One is the North Pole of <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a>, the other the South. The Socialist believes in working for the <a href="/wiki/Good" class="mw-redirect" title="Good">good</a> of all, while Anarchy is pure Individualism. I believe in every man working for the good of self; and in working for the good of self, he works for the good of all. To think, to see, to feel, to know; to deal justly; to bear all patiently; to act quietly; to speak cheerfully; to moderate one's voice—these things will bring you the highest good. They will bring you the love of the best, and the esteem of that Sacred Few, whose good opinion alone is worth cultivating. And further than this, it is the best way you can serve Society—live your life. The wise way to benefit <a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">humanity</a> is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.</p><p>If there is any better way to teach <a href="/wiki/Virtue" title="Virtue">virtue</a> than by practicing it, I do not know it.</p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elbert_Hubbard" title="Elbert Hubbard">Elbert Hubbard</a>, in "The Better Part" (1901)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="J">J</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxism</a> is not only the theory of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Socialism</a>, but also an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This philosophical system is called dialectical materialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>, <i>Works</i> (1952)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The steps of <a href="/wiki/Hegel" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegel">Hegel</a>’s decline are here undeviatingly retraced. Hegel, who did not know the socialized proletariat, began by regarding all history as the history of the philosopher, of consciousness and self-consciousness, and ended with the state <a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy" title="Bureaucracy">bureaucracy</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Stalinists" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalinists">Stalinists</a> use almost the identical phrases. The proletariat’s role in the struggle for socialism is to work harder and harder, while the leadership and organization are left to the "criticism and self-criticism” of the elite, the bureaucracy, the party. Everything depends on the party, on the bureaucracy’s consciousness and self-consciousness of correctness and incorrectness, its direction, its control, its foresight. The masses are merely at the disposal of the party as they are at the disposal of capital. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C._L._R._James" title="C. L. R. James">C. L. R. James</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1950/08/state-capitalism.htm">"State Capitalism and World Revolution"</a> (1950), <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxists_Internet_Archive" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Marxists Internet Archive">Marxists Internet Archive</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Often intellectuals turn toward <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Marx</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Lenin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel" title="Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel">Hegel</a>. They meet Stalinism which spends incredible time, care, energy and vigilance in holding Marx and Lenin within the bounds of their private-property state-property philosophy. The Stalinists repeat interminably that <a href="/wiki/Dialectic" title="Dialectic">dialectics</a> is the transformation of quantity into quality, leaps, breaks in continuity, opposition of capitalism and socialism. It is part and parcel of their determination to represent state-property as revolutionary. In 1917, when the struggle in the working class movement was between reform and revolution, these conceptions may have been debatable. Today all arguments fade into insignificance in face of the actuality. The critical question today, which the Stalinists must avoid like the revolution, is how was the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Revolution" title="Russian Revolution">October Revolution</a> transformed into its opposite, the <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinist</a> counter-revolution, and how is this counter-revolution in turn to be transformed into its opposite. This is the dialectical law which Lenin mastered between 1914 and 1917, the negation of the negation, the self-mobilization of the proletariat as the economics and politics of socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C._L._R._James" title="C. L. R. James">C. L. R. James</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1950/08/state-capitalism.htm">"State Capitalism and World Revolution"</a> (1950), <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxists_Internet_Archive" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Marxists Internet Archive">Marxists Internet Archive</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Today, the reading of Lenin shows that he never at any time allowed himself to slip from seeing socialism as proletarian power, using all necessary and objective forms but carefully distinguishing the fundamental universal of proletarian power from the concrete molds into which history had forced that specific revolution. For Lenin the readiness of Russia for socialism was the appearance of the Soviet, a new form of social organization. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C._L._R._James" title="C. L. R. James">C. L. R. James</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1950/08/state-capitalism.htm">"State Capitalism and World Revolution"</a> (1950), <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxists_Internet_Archive" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Marxists Internet Archive">Marxists Internet Archive</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This isn't new. Those who favor socialism always make the moral case for it. The truth is, maybe they actually believe in it, but in the real world, socialism harms, it weakens the economies of countries that have tried it. It just does. Weaker economies hurt everybody in them. Socialism kills incentive, <a href="/wiki/Opportunity" title="Opportunity">opportunity</a>, freedom. It is the opposite of what America is all about. Look, socialism always harms the people it claims to help the most. It handicaps them, leaving them weaker, less self-determined, less free. We should have this debate out in the open. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jindal" class="extiw" title="w:Bobby Jindal">Bobby Jindal</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://friesian.com/capit-1.htm#note-0">"Notable & Quotable," The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2015, A15, in response to a question by radio host Mike Gallager about comments by Barack Obama on ObamaCare before the Supreme Court, June 10, 2015</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>'s success proves that socialism is not dead. It is thriving. Just imagine this: had socialism failed in China, had <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">our communist party</a> collapsed like the party in the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, then global socialism would lapse into a long dark age. And communism, like <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> once said, would be a haunting spectre lingering in limbo. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3236454/xi-jinping-highlights-importance-innovation-path-chinese-style-modernisation?campaign=3236454&module=perpetual_scroll_1_AI&pgtype=article">Xi Jinping article gives insight into China’s direction ahead of Communist Party congress</a> (2018), South China Morning Post</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We have to say yes to socialism — to the word and everything ... Medicare for all, ending student debt, a different approach to the war on terror, ending <a href="/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States" title="Incarceration in the United States">mass incarceration</a>. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/09/10/jim-carrey-says-stop-apologizing-and-say-yes-to-socialism.html">Jim Carrey says "stop apologizing" and "say yes to socialism"</a> (September 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>‘Socialism’ is a <a href="/wiki/19th_century" title="19th century">19th century</a> idea with a <a href="/wiki/20th_century" title="20th century">20th century</a> history. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Judt" title="Tony Judt">Tony Judt</a>, <i>Ill Fares The Land</i> (2010), "What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?"</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="K">K</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kasparow_garri_20100521_berlin_5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Kasparow_garri_20100521_berlin_5.jpg/220px-Kasparow_garri_20100521_berlin_5.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Kasparow_garri_20100521_berlin_5.jpg/330px-Kasparow_garri_20100521_berlin_5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Kasparow_garri_20100521_berlin_5.jpg/440px-Kasparow_garri_20100521_berlin_5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a><figcaption>[T]he failure of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> is still much better than the success of socialism. ~ <a href="/wiki/Garry_Kasparov" title="Garry Kasparov">Garry Kasparov</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:S-21_Skull_Map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/S-21_Skull_Map.jpg/220px-S-21_Skull_Map.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/S-21_Skull_Map.jpg/330px-S-21_Skull_Map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/S-21_Skull_Map.jpg/440px-S-21_Skull_Map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="799" /></a><figcaption>No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. ~ <a href="/wiki/Alan_Charles_Kors" title="Alan Charles Kors">Alan Charles Kors</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_a_human_face" class="extiw" title="w:Socialism with a human face">Socialism with a human face</a>"? ... <a href="/wiki/Frankenstein_(novel)" title="Frankenstein (novel)">Frankenstein</a> also had a human face. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garry_Kasparov" title="Garry Kasparov">Garry Kasparov</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/garry-kasparov/">interview with Bill Kristol</a> (February 2016), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/garry-kasparov-transcript/">transcript</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The failure of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a> is still much better than the success of socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garry_Kasparov" title="Garry Kasparov">Garry Kasparov</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/garry-kasparov-ii/">Interview with Bill Kristol</a> (April 2016), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/garry-kasparov-ii-transcript/">transcript</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The socialist economy has become so strong, so vigorous that from the summits we have reached we can issue an open challenge of peaceful economic competition to the most powerful capitalist country—the United States of America. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>, concluding speech to twenty-second congress of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_party_of_the_Soviet_Union" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Communist party of the Soviet Union">Communist party of the Soviet Union</a> (October 27, 1961); in Thomas P. Whitney, ed., <i>Khrushchev Speaks: Selected Speeches, Articles, and Press Conferences, 1949–1961</i> (1963), p. 450</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalistic</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> in a 1952 letter to Coretta Scott, quoted in "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-uncompromising-anti-capitalism-of-martin-luther-king-jr_b_4629609">The Uncompromising Anti-Capitalism of Martin Luther King Jr. </a>" <i>Huffpost</i>. January 30, 2014.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This country has socialism for the rich, and rugged <a href="/wiki/Individualism" title="Individualism">individualism</a> for the poor. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a> quoted by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://berniesanders.com/democratic-socialism-in-the-united-states/"><i>Bernie Sanders on Democratic Socialism in the United States</i></a> (19 November 2015)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Call it <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democracy</a>, or call it <a href="/wiki/Democratic_socialism" title="Democratic socialism">democratic socialism</a>, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Martin Luther King, Jr.">Martin Luther King, Jr.</a>, May 1965 speech to the Negro American Labor Council, in T. Jackson, <i>From Civil Rights to Human Rights</i> (2009), p. 230</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power. It surpassed, exponentially, all other systems of production in turning out the dead. The bodies are all around us. And here is the problem: No one talks about them. No one honors them. No one does penance for them. No one has committed <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a> for having been an apologist for those who did this to them. No one pays for them. No one is hunted down to account for them. It is exactly what <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" title="Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn">Solzhenitsyn</a> foresaw in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago" title="The Gulag Archipelago">The Gulag Archipelago</a></i>: "No, no one would have to answer. No one would be <i>looked into</i>." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Charles_Kors" title="Alan Charles Kors">Alan Charles Kors</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160217064704/http://www.wsj.com/articles/notable-quotable-the-victims-of-socialism-1455667462">"Notable & Quotable: The Victims of Socialism"</a> (17 February 2016), <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>, A13</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><p>Socialism, wherever it actually had the means to plan a society, to pursue efficaciously its vision of the abolition of private property, economic inequality, and the allocation of capital and goods by free markets, culminated in the crushing of individual, economic, religious, associational, and political liberty. Its collectivization of agriculture alone led to untold suffering, scarcity, and contempt for property as the fruit of labor...<br />The cognitive behavior of Western intellectuals faced with the accomplishments of their own society, on the one hand, and with the socialist ideal and then the socialist reality, on the other, takes one's breath away...</p><p>[R]egimes of central planning create poverty and occasion ineluctable developments toward totalitarianism and the worst abuses of power. Dynamic free-market societies, grounded in rights-based individualism, have altered the entire human conception of liberty and of dignity for formerly marginalized groups. The entire "socialist experiment," by contrast, ended in stasis; ethnic hatreds; the absence of even the minimal preconditions of economic, social, and political renewal; and categorical contempt for both individuation and minority rights. Our children do not know this true comparison.</p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Charles_Kors" title="Alan Charles Kors">Alan Charles Kors</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150711210614/http://atlassociety.org:80/objectivism/atlas-university/deeper-dive-blog/3962-can-there-be-an-after-socialism">"Can There Be an ‘After Socialism’?"</a> (27 September 2003), <i>Atlas Society</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism" class="extiw" title="w:Socialism">Socialism</a> is easily understood by any child; it is <a href="/wiki/Theft" title="Theft">taking other people's stuff</a>... [S]ocialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty... Socialism almost never has been judged as a goal in value by the experience of communism in power... Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Charles_Kors" title="Alan Charles Kors">Alan Charles Kors</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCrYoYpWuDo&feature=youtu.be">"Socialism's Legacy"</a> (2011), <i>The John W. Pope Lecture Series</i>, The Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irving_Kristol" title="Irving Kristol">Irving Kristol</a>, <i>Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea</i> (1995)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>After two decades of building socialism in the USSR there is no reason for anybody to be a <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexual</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Krylenko" title="Nikolai Krylenko">Nikolai Krylenko</a>, on the law re-criminalizing homosexuality in 1936. Quoted in David Tuller, Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, University of Chicago Press, 1996</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No doubt, free enterprise is a harsh system; it demands real men. But socialism, which appeals to envious people craving for <a href="/wiki/Security" title="Security">security</a> and afraid to decide for themselves, impairs human <a href="/wiki/Dignity" title="Dignity">dignity</a> and crushes man utterly. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn" title="Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn">Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn</a>, <i>The Roots of Anticapitalism</i> (1972)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="L">L</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lenin_(Petrov-Vodkin).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Lenin_%28Petrov-Vodkin%29.jpg/220px-Lenin_%28Petrov-Vodkin%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Lenin_%28Petrov-Vodkin%29.jpg/330px-Lenin_%28Petrov-Vodkin%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Lenin_%28Petrov-Vodkin%29.jpg/440px-Lenin_%28Petrov-Vodkin%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="930" data-file-height="854" /></a><figcaption>Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense. ~ <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Irakli_Gamrekeli._Vladimir_Lenin._1924.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Irakli_Gamrekeli._Vladimir_Lenin._1924.jpg/220px-Irakli_Gamrekeli._Vladimir_Lenin._1924.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="298" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Irakli_Gamrekeli._Vladimir_Lenin._1924.jpg/330px-Irakli_Gamrekeli._Vladimir_Lenin._1924.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Irakli_Gamrekeli._Vladimir_Lenin._1924.jpg/440px-Irakli_Gamrekeli._Vladimir_Lenin._1924.jpg 2x" data-file-width="446" data-file-height="604" /></a><figcaption>We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society. The teachings about this society are called socialism. ~ <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:A_Southern_chain_gang_c1903-restore.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/A_Southern_chain_gang_c1903-restore.jpg/220px-A_Southern_chain_gang_c1903-restore.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/A_Southern_chain_gang_c1903-restore.jpg/330px-A_Southern_chain_gang_c1903-restore.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/A_Southern_chain_gang_c1903-restore.jpg/440px-A_Southern_chain_gang_c1903-restore.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7402" data-file-height="9252" /></a><figcaption>Merely pointing to the fact that some people have a lot more than others is less compelling as a critique; it invites the response “So what? Those who have more aren’t hurting anybody; you’re just appealing to envy.” By contrast, being able to show that those who enjoy a higher socioeconomic status have to a considerable extent achieved and maintained that status by forcibly expropriating and oppressing the less affluent provides for a far more effective indictment. ~ <a href="/wiki/Roderick_Long" title="Roderick Long">Roderick Long</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Cannibalism is actually a sort of dietetic socialism. Here is the ultimate sacrifice. A human life is taken for the purpose of maximizing the ‘public welfare.’ <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_LeFevre" class="extiw" title="w:Robert LeFevre">Robert LeFevre</a>, <i>The Fundamentals of Liberty</i>, Santa Ana: CA, Rampart Institute (1988) p. 375</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. <a href="/wiki/Machine" title="Machine">Machines</a> and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society. The teachings about this society are called socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>, "To the Rural Poor", <i>Collected Works</i>, vol. 6, p. 366</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>, "Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution" (1905), <i>Collected Works</i>, vol. 9, p. 29</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The old trick of the reactionaries: first to misinterpret socialism by making it out to be an absurdity, and then to triumphantly refute the absurdity! ... Experience and reason prove that men are not equal ... in physical strength and mental ability. ... But this kind of equality has nothing whatever to do with socialism. ... By political equality Social-Democrats mean equal rights, and ... abolition of classes. As for establishing human equality in the sense of equality of strength and abilities (physical and mental), socialists do not even think of such things. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>, "A Liberal Professor on Equality", 1914</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are certain types of people who are political out of a kind of religious reason [...] I think it's fairly common among socialists: They are, in fact, God-seekers, looking for the kingdom of God on earth. A lot of religious reformers have been like that, too. It's the same psychological set, trying to abolish the present in favor of some better future — always taking it for granted that there is a better future. If you don't believe in heaven, then you believe in socialism. When I was in my real Communist phase, I and the people around me really believed — but, of course, this makes us certifiable — that something like 10 years after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, the world would be Communist and perfect. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Lessing" title="Doris Lessing">Doris Lessing</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/10/specials/lessing-space.html">"Doris Lessing on Feminism, Communism and Space Fiction"</a> (25 July 1982), Lesley Hazelton, New York Times Book Review</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Let us not destroy those wonderful machines that produce efficiently and cheaply. Let us control them. Let us profit by their <a href="/wiki/Efficiency" title="Efficiency">efficiency</a> and cheapness. Let us run them for ourselves. Let us oust the present owners of the wonderful machines, and let us own the wonderful machines ourselves. That, gentlemen, is socialism, a greater combination than the trusts, a greater economic and social combination than any that has as yet appeared on the planet. It is in line with <a href="/wiki/Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>. We meet combination with greater combination. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_London" title="Jack London">Jack London</a>, <i>The Iron Heel</i>, Chapter VIII, "The Machine Breakers"</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Merely pointing to the fact that some people have a lot more than others is less compelling as a critique; it invites the response “So what? Those who have more aren’t hurting anybody; you’re just appealing to envy.” By contrast, being able to show that those who enjoy a higher socioeconomic status have to a considerable extent achieved and maintained that status by forcibly expropriating and oppressing the less affluent provides for a far more effective indictment. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roderick_Long" title="Roderick Long">Roderick Long</a>, "Left-libertarianism, market anarchism, class conflict and historical theories of distributive justice," <i>Griffith Law Review</i>, Vol. 21 Issue 2 (2012), pp. 413-431</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to Socialism or regression into Barbarism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg" title="Rosa Luxemburg">Rosa Luxemburg</a>, <i>Junius Pamphlet</i> (1916)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="M">M</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HolodomorKharkiv_1933_Wienerberger.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/HolodomorKharkiv_1933_Wienerberger.jpg/220px-HolodomorKharkiv_1933_Wienerberger.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/HolodomorKharkiv_1933_Wienerberger.jpg/330px-HolodomorKharkiv_1933_Wienerberger.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/HolodomorKharkiv_1933_Wienerberger.jpg/440px-HolodomorKharkiv_1933_Wienerberger.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1191" /></a><figcaption>The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. ~ <a href="/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a>, as quoted in <i>Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time</i> (1977) by Laurence J. Peter</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is true, as I have already stated, that I have been influenced by <a href="/wiki/Marxist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist">Marxist</a> thought. But this is also true of many of the leaders of the new independent States. Such widely different persons as <a href="/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi" title="Mahatma Gandhi">Gandhi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Nehru</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah" title="Kwame Nkrumah">Nkrumah</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser" title="Gamal Abdel Nasser">Nasser</a> all acknowledge this fact. We all accept the need for some form of socialism to enable our people to catch up with the advanced countries of this world and to overcome their legacy of extreme poverty. But this does not mean we are Marxists. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a>, statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial, Pretoria Supreme Court, (20 April 1964)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Party is capable of leading the peasants along this road. These two points are the essence of the matter, the main current. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a>, On the Question of Agricultural Co-operation  (July 31, 1955)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long historical period. But we should all realise that the new system of socialism will unquestionably be consolidated. We can assuredly build a socialist state with modern industry, modern agriculture, and modern science and culture. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a>, Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work  (March 12, 1957)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Under the leadership of the Communist Party, the Chinese people are carrying out a vigorous rectification movement in order to bring about the rapid development of socialism in China on a firmer basis. It is a movement for carrying out a nation-wide debate which is both guided and free, a debate in the city and the countryside on such questions as the socialist road versus the capitalist road, the basic system of the state and its major policies, the working style of Party and government functionaries, and the question of the welfare of the people, a debate which is conducted by setting forth facts and reasoning things out, so as correctly to resolve those actual contradictions among the people which demand immediate solution. This is a socialist movement for the self-education and selfremoulding of the people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mao_Zedong" title="Mao Zedong">Mao Zedong</a>, Speech at the Meeting of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. in Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (November 6, 1957)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is the theory that the desire of one man to get something he hasn't got is more pleasing to a just God than the desire of some other man to keep what he has got. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a>, <i>A Little Book in C Major</i> (1916) p. 51</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is the common error of Socialists to overlook the natural indolence of mankind; their tendency to be passive, to be the slaves of habit, to persist indefinitely in a course once chosen. Let them once attain any state of existence which they consider tolerable, and the danger to be apprehended is that they will thenceforth stagnate; will not exert themselves to improve, and by letting their faculties rust, will lose even the energy required to preserve them from deterioration. Competition may not be the best conceivable stimulus, but it is at present a necessary one, and no one can foresee the time when it will not be indispensable to progress. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">John Stuart Mill</a>, "The Principles of Political Economy", <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=KRQoAAAAYAAJ&">Vol.2</a>, Book IV, Chapter 7</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The West has unfortunately already started to go along this path. I know, to many it may sound ridiculous to suggest that the West has turned to socialism, but it's only ridiculous if you only limit yourself to the traditional economic definition of socialism, which says that it's an <a href="/wiki/Economic_system" title="Economic system">economic system</a> where the <a href="/wiki/State" title="State">state</a> owns the <a href="/wiki/Means_of_production" title="Means of production">means of production</a>. This definition in my view, should be updated in the light of current circumstances. Today, states don't need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals. With tools such as printing <a href="/wiki/Money" title="Money">money</a>, <a href="/wiki/Government_debt" title="Government debt">debt</a>, subsidies, controlling the <a href="/wiki/Interest" title="Interest">interest</a> rate, <a href="/wiki/Price_controls" title="Price controls">price controls</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Regulation" title="Regulation">regulations</a> to correct so-called <a href="/wiki/Market_failure" title="Market failure">market failures</a>, they can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals. This is how we come to the point where, by using different names or guises, a good deal of the generally accepted <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideologies</a> in most Western countries are <a href="/wiki/Collectivism" title="Collectivism">collectivist</a> variants, whether they proclaim to be openly <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascist</a>, socialist, <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">social democrats</a>, <a href="/wiki/National_Socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="National Socialist">national socialists</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_democracy" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Christian democracy">Christian democrats</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neo-Keynesian_economics" title="Neo-Keynesian economics">neo-Keynesians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Progressivism" title="Progressivism">progressives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Populism" title="Populism">populists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalists</a> or <a href="/wiki/Globalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Globalism">globalists</a>. Ultimately, there are no major differences. They all say that the state should steer all aspects of the lives of individuals. They all defend a model contrary to the one that led humanity to the most spectacular progress in its history. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Javier_Milei" title="Javier Milei">Javier Milei</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/special-address-by-javier-milei-president-of-argentina/">Special Address to the World Economic Forum</a>, 18 January 2024</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The champions of socialism call themselves <a href="/wiki/Progressivism" title="Progressivism">progressives</a>, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves <a href="/wiki/Democracy" title="Democracy">democrats</a>, but they yearn for <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">dictatorship</a>. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden" class="extiw" title="w:Garden of Eden">Garden of Eden</a>, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises" title="Ludwig von Mises">Ludwig von Mises</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2016/05/bureaucracy.html"><i>Bureaucracy</i></a> (1944), New Haven: Yale University Press</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Thus socialism must lead to the dissolution of democracy. The sovereignty of the consumers and the democracy of the market are the characteristic features of the capitalist system. Their corollary in the realm of politics is the people’s sovereignty and democratic control of government. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises" title="Ludwig von Mises">Ludwig von Mises</a>, <i>Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and the Total War</i>, Mises Institute (2010) p. 53. First published in 1944 by Yale University Press</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism as a universal mode of production is impracticable because it is impossible to make economic calculations within a socialist system. The choice for mankind is not between two economic systems. It is between capitalism and chaos. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises" title="Ludwig von Mises">Ludwig von Mises</a>, <i>Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and the Total War</i>, Mises Institute (2010) p. 55. First published in 1944 by Yale University Press</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production. It decides what shall be produced and how. It allots to each individual a share of consumer's goods for his consumption….The German pattern differs from the Russian one in that it (seemingly and nominally) maintains private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary prices, wages, and markets. There are, however, no longer entrepreneurs but only shop managers (Betriebsführer)….The government, not the consumers, directs production. This is socialism in the outward guise of capitalism. Some labels of capitalistic market economy are retained but they mean something entirely different from what they mean in a genuine market economy. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises" title="Ludwig von Mises">Ludwig von Mises</a>, <i>Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and the Total War</i>, Mises Institute (2010) p. 56. First published in 1944 by Yale University Press</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Throughout the history of the socialist movement there has, therefore, been a strand of feminist critique from within. Many feminists shared in the vision of a just society, but criticised the ways in which communist parties sought to bring it about. Amongst the Bolsheviks, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Inessa_Armand&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Inessa Armand (page does not exist)">Inessa Armand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Kollontai" title="Alexandra Kollontai">Alexandra Kollontai</a> were early critics of their party's policies and practice, and they, along with anarchist feminists such as <a href="/wiki/Emma_Goldman" title="Emma Goldman">Emma Goldman</a>, laid some of the early groundwork in identifying socialism's failures. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maxine_Molyneux&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maxine Molyneux (page does not exist)">Maxine Molyneux</a> Women's Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond (2000)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Unquestionably, <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Bolshevism</a> has ruined the economic life of Russia... For our part, we declare war on socialism, not because it is socialism, but because it has opposed <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalism</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a>, <i>Il Popolo d'Italia</i>, 23 March 1919. Reprinted in Charles Floyd Delzell, <i>Mediterranean Fascism 1919–1945</i>. Springer, 1971. Marco Piraino; Stefano Fiorito, <i>Fascist identity : political project and doctrine of fascism</i> Lulu.com, 2009</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>No individuals or groups (<a href="/wiki/Political_parties" title="Political parties">political parties</a>, cultural associations, <a href="/wiki/Trade_unions" title="Trade unions">economic unions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_class" title="Social class">social classes</a>) outside the State. Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle. Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Gentile" title="Giovanni Gentile">Giovanni Gentile</a> "Doctrine of Fascism", 1932. Reprinted in Charles Floyd Delzell, <i>Mediterranean Fascism 1919–1945</i>. Springer, 1971</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution. <ul><li>Speech at the Italian Socialist Party’s meeting in Milan at the People’s Theatre on Nov. 25, 1914. Quote in Revolutionary Fascism by Erik Norling, Lisbon, Finis Mundi Press (2011) p. 88.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket.</b> I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… [Marx] had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Talks with Mussolini </i>, <a href="/wiki/Emil_Ludwig" title="Emil Ludwig">Emil Ludwig</a>, Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company (1933) p. 38. Interview between March 23 and April 4, 1932, at the Palazzo di Venezia in Rome <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archive.org/details/talkswithmussoli006557mbp">[3]</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism… <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" title="Benito Mussolini">Benito Mussolini</a> as quoted in <i>Revolutionary Fascism</i>, Erik Norling, Lisbon, Finis Mundi Press (2011) pp.119-120. Speech given by Mussolini to a group of Milanese Fascist veterans on October 14, 1944.</li></ul></li> <li>Cooperation with women from socialist countries helped us a lot. For example with scholarships for study or reciprocal visits, and sometimes they paid for us to take part in conferences. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Monze" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Lily Monze">Lily Monze</a> as quoted in <i>The Future of Foreign Policy is Female</i>, Kristina Lunz (Polity Press, 2023)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="N">N</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Killing_fields_bones.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Killing_fields_bones.jpg/220px-Killing_fields_bones.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="168" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Killing_fields_bones.jpg/330px-Killing_fields_bones.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Killing_fields_bones.jpg/440px-Killing_fields_bones.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1773" data-file-height="1356" /></a><figcaption>[There is] not a single free socialism to be found anywhere in the world. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nisbet" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Nisbet">Robert Nisbet</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest <a href="/wiki/Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a>. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word ‘justice’ into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason... and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a>, <i>Human, All Too Human</i>, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 173-174. First published in 1878.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>[There is] not a single free socialism to be found anywhere in the world. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Nisbet" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Nisbet">Robert Nisbet</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/capitalism-socialism-and-democracy/">"Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: A Symposium"</a> (1 April 1978), edited by William Barrett, <i>Commentary</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lacking much historical information and assuming (1) that victims of <a href="/wiki/Injustice" title="Injustice">injustice</a> generally do worse than they otherwise would and (2) that those from the least well-off group in the society have the highest probabilities of being the (descendants of) victims of the most serious injustice who are owed compensation by those who benefited from the injustices, ... then a <i>rough</i> rule of thumb for rectifying injustices might seem to be the following: organize society so as to maximize the position of whatever group ends up least well-off in the society. ... These issues are very complex and are best left to a full treatment of the principle of rectification. In the absence of such a treatment applied to a particular society, one <i>cannot</i> use the analysis and theory presented here to condemn any particular scheme of <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_income_and_wealth" title="Redistribution of income and wealth">transfer payments</a>, unless it is clear that no considerations of rectification of injustice could apply to justify it. Although to introduce socialism as the punishment for our sins would be to go too far, past injustices might seem to be so great as to make necessary in the short run a more extensive state in order to rectify them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Nozick" title="Robert Nozick">Robert Nozick</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy,_State_and_Utopia" class="extiw" title="w:Anarchy, State and Utopia">Anarchy, State and Utopia</a></i> (1974), pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fVITAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT138">231-232</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="O">O</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George-orwell-BBC.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/George-orwell-BBC.jpg/220px-George-orwell-BBC.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/George-orwell-BBC.jpg/330px-George-orwell-BBC.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/George-orwell-BBC.jpg/440px-George-orwell-BBC.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="1069" /></a><figcaption>Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a> and for <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Socialism">democratic Socialism</a>, as I <a href="/wiki/Understand" class="mw-redirect" title="Understand">understand</a> it. ~ <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_(1936_%E2%80%93_1955).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/330px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg/440px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union_%281936_%E2%80%93_1955%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>In my opinion, <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a> has contributed so much to the <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a> of the original <a href="/wiki/Idea" class="mw-redirect" title="Idea">idea</a> of socialism as the belief that <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. ~ <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:39_Zis_Stalin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/39_Zis_Stalin.jpg/220px-39_Zis_Stalin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/39_Zis_Stalin.jpg/330px-39_Zis_Stalin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/39_Zis_Stalin.jpg/440px-39_Zis_Stalin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3125" data-file-height="2817" /></a><figcaption>I had seen little evidence that the USSR was progressing towards anything that one could truly call Socialism. ~ <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>National Socialism is a form of Socialism, is emphatically revolutionary,</b> does crush the property owner as surely as it crushes the worker. . . . It is Germany that is moving towards Russia, rather than the other way about. It is therefore nonsense to talk about Germany ‘going Bolshevik’ if Hitler falls. Germany is going Bolshevik because of <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> and not in spite of him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, Review of <i>The Totalitarian Enemy</i> by F. Borkenau, <i>Time and Tide</i> (4 May 1940). <i>Orwell: My Country Right or Left - 1940 to 1943</i>, Vol. 2, (2000)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">The Spanish war</a> and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a> and for <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Socialism" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Socialism">democratic Socialism</a>, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/write.html">"Why I Write"</a>, <i>Gangrel</i> (Summer 1946)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In addition to this there is the horrible—the really disquieting—prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and '<a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">Communism</a>' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, <a href="/wiki/Nudity" title="Nudity">nudist</a>, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, <a href="/wiki/Quakers" title="Quakers">Quaker</a>, 'Nature Cure' quack, <a href="/wiki/Pacifism" title="Pacifism">pacifist</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism">feminist</a> in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier" title="The Road to Wigan Pier">The Road to Wigan Pier</a></i>, Ch. 11</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier" title="The Road to Wigan Pier">The Road to Wigan Pier</a></i>, Ch. 11</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html">Preface to the Ukrainian edition</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/Animal_Farm" title="Animal Farm">Animal Farm</a></i>, as published in <i>The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell : As I please, 1943-1945</i> (1968)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Since 1930 I had seen little evidence that the USSR was progressing towards anything that one could truly call Socialism. On the contrary, I was struck by clear signs of its transformation into a hierarchical society, in which the rulers have no more reason to give up their power than any other ruling class. Moreover, the <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">workers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Intellectual" title="Intellectual">intelligentsia</a> in a country like England cannot understand that the USSR of today is altogether different from what it was in 1917. It is partly that they do not want to understand (i.e. they want to believe that, somewhere, a really Socialist country does actually exist), and partly that, being accustomed to comparative freedom and moderation in public life, <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a> is completely incomprehensible to them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> in the original preface to <i><a href="/wiki/Animal_Farm" title="Animal Farm">Animal Farm</a></i>; as published in <i>George Orwell : Some Materials for a Bibliography</i> (1953) by Ian R. Willison</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism, which has the future of the world in its hands, will probably be unable to abolish war, and will certaintly not care for beauty or seek to preserve it. The reconstruction of society which Socialism contemplates will not be a state of things in which the interests of either nature or art will be cherished. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ouida" title="Ouida">Ouida</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/criticalstudies00ouiduoft/page/n244/mode/2up">"The Ugliness of Modern Life"</a>. <i>Critical Studies</i>. 1900. pp. 210–238.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=The+Ugliness+of+Modern+Life&rft.atitle=Critical+Studies&rft.date=1900&rft.pages=pp.%26nbsp%3B210%E2%80%93238&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Socialism"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> (quote from p. 234)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="P">P</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AntonPannekoek1908.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/AntonPannekoek1908.jpg/220px-AntonPannekoek1908.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/AntonPannekoek1908.jpg/330px-AntonPannekoek1908.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/AntonPannekoek1908.jpg/440px-AntonPannekoek1908.jpg 2x" data-file-width="680" data-file-height="952" /></a><figcaption>The workers are master of the means of production no more than under Western capitalism. They receive their wages and are exploited by the State as the only mammoth capitalist. ... The entirety of the ruling and leading bureaucracy of officials is the actual owner of the factories, the possessing class. ~ <a href="/wiki/Antonie_Pannekoek" title="Antonie Pannekoek">Antonie Pannekoek</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:J%C3%B3zsef_k%C3%B6r%C3%BAt_a_Corvin_(Kisfaludy)_k%C3%B6zn%C3%A9l._Harck%C3%A9ptelenn%C3%A9_tett_ISU-152-es_szovjet_rohaml%C3%B6vegek,_a_h%C3%A1tt%C3%A9rben_egy_T-34-85_harckocsi._Fortepan_24854.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/J%C3%B3zsef_k%C3%B6r%C3%BAt_a_Corvin_%28Kisfaludy%29_k%C3%B6zn%C3%A9l._Harck%C3%A9ptelenn%C3%A9_tett_ISU-152-es_szovjet_rohaml%C3%B6vegek%2C_a_h%C3%A1tt%C3%A9rben_egy_T-34-85_harckocsi._Fortepan_24854.jpg/220px-J%C3%B3zsef_k%C3%B6r%C3%BAt_a_Corvin_%28Kisfaludy%29_k%C3%B6zn%C3%A9l._Harck%C3%A9ptelenn%C3%A9_tett_ISU-152-es_szovjet_rohaml%C3%B6vegek%2C_a_h%C3%A1tt%C3%A9rben_egy_T-34-85_harckocsi._Fortepan_24854.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/J%C3%B3zsef_k%C3%B6r%C3%BAt_a_Corvin_%28Kisfaludy%29_k%C3%B6zn%C3%A9l._Harck%C3%A9ptelenn%C3%A9_tett_ISU-152-es_szovjet_rohaml%C3%B6vegek%2C_a_h%C3%A1tt%C3%A9rben_egy_T-34-85_harckocsi._Fortepan_24854.jpg/330px-J%C3%B3zsef_k%C3%B6r%C3%BAt_a_Corvin_%28Kisfaludy%29_k%C3%B6zn%C3%A9l._Harck%C3%A9ptelenn%C3%A9_tett_ISU-152-es_szovjet_rohaml%C3%B6vegek%2C_a_h%C3%A1tt%C3%A9rben_egy_T-34-85_harckocsi._Fortepan_24854.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/J%C3%B3zsef_k%C3%B6r%C3%BAt_a_Corvin_%28Kisfaludy%29_k%C3%B6zn%C3%A9l._Harck%C3%A9ptelenn%C3%A9_tett_ISU-152-es_szovjet_rohaml%C3%B6vegek%2C_a_h%C3%A1tt%C3%A9rben_egy_T-34-85_harckocsi._Fortepan_24854.jpg/440px-J%C3%B3zsef_k%C3%B6r%C3%BAt_a_Corvin_%28Kisfaludy%29_k%C3%B6zn%C3%A9l._Harck%C3%A9ptelenn%C3%A9_tett_ISU-152-es_szovjet_rohaml%C3%B6vegek%2C_a_h%C3%A1tt%C3%A9rben_egy_T-34-85_harckocsi._Fortepan_24854.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4824" data-file-height="3293" /></a><figcaption>The merger of political and economic power implicit in socialism greatly strengthens the ability of the state and its bureaucracy to control the population. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pipes" class="extiw" title="w:Richard Pipes">Richard Pipes</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In three ways <a href="/wiki/Unemployment" title="Unemployment">unemployment</a> would be reduced. First ... by greater equalization of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power" class="extiw" title="w:Purchasing power">purchasing power</a> and consequent stimulus in the form of effective <a href="/wiki/Demand" title="Demand">demand</a>. Second, by utilizing the national credit and socialized industries for the creation of new industries and the extension of existing ones. ... Social ownership and operation of the basic industries, and especially socialized <a href="/wiki/Banking" title="Banking">banking</a> and credit, would greatly facilitate the task of shifting the masses of unemployed into productive channels. Third, if necessary, by shortening working hours and dividing the available work among all the people. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kirby_Page" title="Kirby Page">Kirby Page</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">Property</a></i> (1935)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The actual participants in <a href="/wiki/Industry" title="Industry">industry</a> under <a href="/wiki/Individualism" title="Individualism">individualism</a> are prompted to action by the following combination of incentives: desire for an income, desire for a higher income, desire for security, satisfaction received from shouldering responsibility or from wielding power, the joy of participation in creative activity, and the desire for applause and prestige. ... And all these motivations may be conserved and strengthened under socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kirby_Page" title="Kirby Page">Kirby Page</a>, <i>Property</i> (1935)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A social order in which the maximum legal income is not more than tenfold the minimum... and in which competition for private profit has been eliminated, and in which social motivations are more dominant, is certain to be a more harmonious community than can ever be created by economic individualism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kirby_Page" title="Kirby Page">Kirby Page</a>, <i>Property</i> (1935)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The system of production developed in Russia is State socialism. It is organized production, with the State as universal employer, master of the entire production apparatus. The workers are master of the means of production no more than under Western capitalism. They receive their wages and are exploited by the State as the only mammoth capitalist. So the name <a href="/wiki/State_capitalism" title="State capitalism">State capitalism</a> can be applied with precisely the same meaning. The entirety of the ruling and leading bureaucracy of officials is the actual owner of the factories, the possessing class. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antonie_Pannekoek" title="Antonie Pannekoek">Antonie Pannekoek</a>, <i>Workers Councils</i> (1947), Section 2.5</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that <a href="/wiki/Collectivism" title="Collectivism">collectivism</a> does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a>, <i>Centesimus Annus</i> (1991)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Venerable Brethren and Beloved Sons, having surveyed the present economic system, We have found it laboring under the gravest of evils. We have also summoned Communism and Socialism again to judgment and have found all their forms, even the most modified, to wander far from the precepts of the <a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pope_Pius_XI" title="Pope Pius XI">Pope Pius XI</a>, <i>Quadragesimo Anno</i>, § 128 (15 May 1931)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The fundamental reason why <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare" class="extiw" title="w:Medicare">Medicare</a> is failing is why the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> failed; socialism doesn't work. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rand_Paul" title="Rand Paul">Rand Paul</a>, as quoted in <i>Kentucky Tonight</i> (16 June 1998), KET</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The merger of political and economic power implicit in socialism greatly strengthens the ability of the state and its bureaucracy to control the population. Theoretically, this capacity need not be exercised and need not lead to growing domination of the population by the state. In practice, such a tendency is virtually inevitable. For one thing, the socialization of the economy must lead to a numerical growth of the bureaucracy required to administer it, and this process cannot fail to augment the power of the state. For another, socialism leads to a tug of war between the state, bent on enforcing its economic monopoly, and the ordinary citizen, equally determined to evade it; the result is repression and the creation of specialized repressive organs. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Pipes" title="Richard Pipes">Richard Pipes</a>, as quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/capitalism-socialism-and-democracy/">"Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: A Symposium"</a> (1 April 1978), edited by William Barrett, <i>Commentary</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The moment that the <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">Chinese</a> <a href="/wiki/Scientists" title="Scientists">scientists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Doctors" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctors">doctors</a> announced that the <a href="/wiki/Coronavirus" class="mw-redirect" title="Coronavirus">coronavirus</a> could be transmitted between human beings on Jan. 20, 2020, the <a href="/wiki/Socialist" class="mw-redirect" title="Socialist">socialist</a> governments went into action to monitor ports of entry and to test and trace key parts of the population. They set up task forces and procedures to immediately make sure that the infection would not go out of control amongst their people. They did not wait till the <a href="/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> (WHO) declared a <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">global pandemic</a> on March 11.<br />This is in stark contrast to governments in the United States, the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>, and other <a href="/wiki/Capitalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalist">capitalist</a> states, where there has been a hallucinatory attitude towards the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_China" class="extiw" title="w:Government of China">Chinese government</a> and the WHO. There is no comparison between the stance of <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>’s Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Xu%C3%A2n_Ph%C3%BAc" title="Nguyễn Xuân Phúc">Nguyen Xuan Phuc</a> and U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>: the former had a sober, <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>-based attitude, while the latter has consistently laughed off the coronavirus as a simple flu as recently as June 24. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vijay_Prashad" title="Vijay Prashad">Vijay Prashad</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/16/covid-19-why-laos-vietnam-china-have-beaten-the-virus-and-india-brazil-and-the-us-have-not/">COVID-19: Why Laos, Vietnam & China Have Beaten the Virus and India, Brazil and the US Have Not, <i>Consortium News</i></a> (16 July 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="R">R</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: R"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Katyn_massacre_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Katyn_massacre_1.jpg/220px-Katyn_massacre_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Katyn_massacre_1.jpg/330px-Katyn_massacre_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Katyn_massacre_1.jpg/440px-Katyn_massacre_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="670" data-file-height="401" /></a><figcaption>[T]he history of the 20th century was basically that of the swath of destruction left across the globe by socialist ideas, from the international socialism of the Bolsheviks and the Soviet Union to the national socialism of Adolf Hitler. ~ <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Reynolds" title="Glenn Reynolds">Glenn Reynolds</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Escasez_en_Venezuela,_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG/220px-Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG/330px-Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG/440px-Escasez_en_Venezuela%2C_Central_Madeirense_8.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="3216" /></a><figcaption>Want real <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism" class="extiw" title="w:Socialism">socialism</a>? Look at <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>, an oil-exporting nation that is now dead broke even as the family of its socialist dictator, Hugo Chavez, reportedly somehow inherited billions at his death in 2013. Redistribution of wealth often seems to involve redistributing most of it to the people on top of the socialist pyramid. ~ <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Reynolds" title="Glenn Reynolds">Glenn Reynolds</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I know that some people in the U.S. associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism... Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear. <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> is far from a socialist <a href="/wiki/Planned_economy" title="Planned economy">planned economy</a>. Denmark is a <a href="/wiki/Market_economy" class="mw-redirect" title="Market economy">market economy</a>... The Nordic model is an expanded <a href="/wiki/Welfare_state" title="Welfare state">welfare state</a> which provides a high level of <a href="/wiki/Security" title="Security">security</a> to its citizens, but it is also a successful market economy with much freedom to pursue your dreams and live your life as you wish. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lars_L%C3%B8kke_Rasmussen" title="Lars Løkke Rasmussen">Lars Løkke Rasmussen</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vox.com/2015/10/31/9650030/denmark-prime-minister-bernie-sanders">"Nordic Solutions and Challenges: A Danish Perspective"</a> (October 2015), speech to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilhelm_Reich.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Wilhelm_Reich.jpg/220px-Wilhelm_Reich.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Wilhelm_Reich.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="323" data-file-height="483" /></a><figcaption>In the strictly <a href="/wiki/Marxist" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist">Marxist</a> sense, there is not even in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Russia" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Soviet Russia">Soviet Russia</a> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_socialism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:state socialism">state socialism</a> but a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_capitalism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:state capitalism">state capitalism</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Such terms as <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a>, socialism, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabianism" class="extiw" title="w:Fabianism">Fabianism</a>, the welfare state, <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">fascism</a>, state interventionism, <a href="/wiki/Egalitarianism" title="Egalitarianism">egalitarianism</a>, the planned economy, the <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a>, the Fair Deal, the New Republicanism, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_E._Read" title="Leonard E. Read">Leonard E. Read</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cdn.mises.org/Elements%20of%20Libertarian%20Leadership_2.pdf">Elements of Libertarian Leadership</a> (1962), pp 62-63</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the strictly Marxist sense, there is not even in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Russia" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Soviet Russia">Soviet Russia</a> a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_socialism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:state socialism">state socialism</a> but a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_capitalism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:state capitalism">state capitalism</a>. According to Marx, the social condition "capitalism" does not consist in the existence of individual capitalists, but in the existence of the specific "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_mode_of_production" class="extiw" title="w:Capitalist mode of production">capitalist mode of production</a>", that is, in the production of exchange values instead of use values, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_labour" class="extiw" title="w:Wage labour">wage work</a> of the masses and in the production of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/surplus_value" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:surplus value">surplus value</a>, which is appropriated by the state or the private owners, and not by the society of working people. In this strictly Marxist sense, the capitalistic system continues to exist in Russia. And it will continue to exist as long as the masses of people continue to lack responsibility and to crave authority. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, in his Introduction to the third edition of <i>The Mass Psychology of Fascism</i> (1945)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So let me get this straight: Extending additional unemployment benefits to out-of-work Americans during a pandemic will make them lazy and lead to socialism, but trillions in bailouts to <a href="/wiki/Wall_Street" title="Wall Street">Wall St.</a> <a href="/wiki/Banking" title="Banking">bankers</a> and corporate execs is good for the economy? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Reich" title="Robert Reich">Robert Reich</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1279935180120129537">Twitter,</a> (5 July 2020)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You are afraid of life, Little Man, deadly afraid. You will murder it in the belief of doing it for the sake of "socialism," or "the state," or "national honor," or "the glory of God." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich" title="Wilhelm Reich">Wilhelm Reich</a>, <i>Listen, Little Man!</i> (1948)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Idiots of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss... Under communism (socialism), there is no incentive to supply people with anything they need or want, including safety. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Reisman" title="George Reisman">George Reisman</a>, <i>Capitalism : A Treatise on Economics</i> (1996).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A socialist is someone who wants politicians to decide who gets what; a “democratic socialist” wants the politicians to at least stand for election first. ... Socialism does have a siren call — essentially, the promise that if you vote for socialists, they’ll take stuff away from other people and give it to you. Since many people would rather have free stuff given to them in the name of “fairness” than have to work to get their own stuff, it’s never hard to round up votes with that approach. As the saying goes, a government that robs <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Peter</a> to pay <a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus">Paul</a> can count on getting Paul’s vote. ... The history of the 20th century was basically that of the swath of destruction left across the globe by socialist ideas, from the international socialism of the Bolsheviks and the Soviet Union to the national socialism of <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>. ... Want real socialism? Look at <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a>, an oil-exporting nation that is now dead broke even as the family of its socialist dictator, <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez" title="Hugo Chávez">Hugo Chavez</a>, reportedly somehow inherited billions at his death in 2013. <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_income_and_wealth" title="Redistribution of income and wealth">Redistribution of wealth</a> often seems to involve redistributing most of it to the people on top of the socialist pyramid. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Reynolds" title="Glenn Reynolds">Glenn Reynolds</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160212002639/http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/11/glenn-reynolds-socialism-bernie-sanders-young-millennial-voters-column/80169668/">"Socialism not as hot as its spokesman"</a> (11 February 2016), <i>USA Today</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For two decades the supporters of <a href="/wiki/Bolsheviks" title="Bolsheviks">Bolshevism</a> have been hammering it into the masses that <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat" title="Dictatorship of the proletariat">dictatorship</a> is a vital <a href="/wiki/Necessity" title="Necessity">necessity</a> for the defense of the so-called <a href="/wiki/Proletarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Proletarian">proletarian</a> interests against the assaults of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/counter-revolution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:counter-revolution">counter-revolution</a> and for paving the way for <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Socialism</a>. They have not advanced the cause of Socialism by this <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a>, but have merely smoothed the way for <a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a> in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> and <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a> by causing millions of people to forget that dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to <a href="/wiki/Social" class="mw-redirect" title="Social">social</a> <a href="/wiki/Liberation" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberation">liberation</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, the so-called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat#Stalinism_and_"dictatorship"" class="extiw" title="w:Dictatorship of the proletariat">dictatorship of the proletariat</a> has not led to Socialism, but to the domination of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenklatura" class="extiw" title="w:Nomenklatura">new bureaucracy</a> over the proletariat and the <a href="/wiki/Whole" class="mw-redirect" title="Whole">whole</a> <a href="/wiki/People" class="mw-redirect" title="People">people</a>. … What the Russian <a href="/wiki/Autocrats" class="mw-redirect" title="Autocrats">autocrats</a> and their supporters <a href="/wiki/Fear" title="Fear">fear</a> most is that the <a href="/wiki/Success" title="Success">success</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/libertarian_Socialism" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:libertarian Socialism">libertarian Socialism</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Spanish_Republic" class="extiw" title="w:Second Spanish Republic">Spain</a> might <a href="/wiki/Prove" class="mw-redirect" title="Prove">prove</a> to their blind followers that the much vaunted "necessity of dictatorship" is <a href="/wiki/Nothing" class="mw-redirect" title="Nothing">nothing</a> but one vast <a href="/wiki/Fraud" title="Fraud">fraud</a> which in Russia has led to the <a href="/wiki/Despotism" title="Despotism">despotism</a> of <a href="/wiki/Stalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalin">Stalin</a> and is to serve <a href="/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War" title="Spanish Civil War">today in Spain</a> to help the counter-revolution to a victory over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Revolution_of_1936" class="extiw" title="w:Spanish Revolution of 1936">revolution</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Workers" class="mw-redirect" title="Workers">workers</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Peasants" class="mw-redirect" title="Peasants">peasants</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Rocker" title="Rudolf Rocker">Rudolf Rocker</a>, <i>The Tragedy of Spain</i> (1937), p. 35</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="S">S</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca,_az_%C3%9Cll%C5%91i_%C3%BAt_87._Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca_fel%C3%A9_es%C5%91_homlokzata._Fortepan_24736.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca%2C_az_%C3%9Cll%C5%91i_%C3%BAt_87._Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca_fel%C3%A9_es%C5%91_homlokzata._Fortepan_24736.jpg/220px-Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca%2C_az_%C3%9Cll%C5%91i_%C3%BAt_87._Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca_fel%C3%A9_es%C5%91_homlokzata._Fortepan_24736.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca%2C_az_%C3%9Cll%C5%91i_%C3%BAt_87._Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca_fel%C3%A9_es%C5%91_homlokzata._Fortepan_24736.jpg/330px-Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca%2C_az_%C3%9Cll%C5%91i_%C3%BAt_87._Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca_fel%C3%A9_es%C5%91_homlokzata._Fortepan_24736.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca%2C_az_%C3%9Cll%C5%91i_%C3%BAt_87._Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca_fel%C3%A9_es%C5%91_homlokzata._Fortepan_24736.jpg/440px-Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca%2C_az_%C3%9Cll%C5%91i_%C3%BAt_87._Thaly_K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n_utca_fel%C3%A9_es%C5%91_homlokzata._Fortepan_24736.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4889" data-file-height="3545" /></a><figcaption>Why is it after a century of socialist disasters, and an intellectual legacy that has been time and again exploded, the left-wing position remains, as it were, the default position to which thinking people gravitate when called upon for a comprehensive philosophy? Why are "right-wingers" marginalised in the educational system, denounced in the media and regarded by our political class as untouchable, fit only to clean up after the orgies of luxurious nonsense indulged in by their moral superiors? ~ <a href="/wiki/Roger_Scruton" title="Roger Scruton">Roger Scruton</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Libertarian_Socialist_Flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Libertarian_Socialist_Flag.svg/220px-Libertarian_Socialist_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Libertarian_Socialist_Flag.svg/330px-Libertarian_Socialist_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Libertarian_Socialist_Flag.svg/440px-Libertarian_Socialist_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>I, who said forty years ago that we should have had Socialism already but for the Socialists, am quite willing to drop the <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a> if dropping it will help me to get the thing. ~ <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russia_EWCS_%E2%84%96182_Solzhenitsyn_FD_cancellation.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Russia_EWCS_%E2%84%96182_Solzhenitsyn_FD_cancellation.jpg/220px-Russia_EWCS_%E2%84%96182_Solzhenitsyn_FD_cancellation.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Russia_EWCS_%E2%84%96182_Solzhenitsyn_FD_cancellation.jpg/330px-Russia_EWCS_%E2%84%96182_Solzhenitsyn_FD_cancellation.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Russia_EWCS_%E2%84%96182_Solzhenitsyn_FD_cancellation.jpg/440px-Russia_EWCS_%E2%84%96182_Solzhenitsyn_FD_cancellation.jpg 2x" data-file-width="770" data-file-height="542" /></a><figcaption>Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Solzhenitsyn" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Solzhenitsyn">Alexander Solzhenitsyn</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thomas_Sowell_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Thomas_Sowell_cropped.jpg/220px-Thomas_Sowell_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="268" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Thomas_Sowell_cropped.jpg/330px-Thomas_Sowell_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Thomas_Sowell_cropped.jpg/440px-Thomas_Sowell_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="855" data-file-height="1041" /></a><figcaption>Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster. ~ <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell">Thomas Sowell</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>In everything we are destroyers – even in the instruments of destruction to which we turn for relief. The very socialism and <a href="/wiki/Internationalism" title="Internationalism">internationalism</a> through which our choked spirit seeks utterance, which seem to threaten your way of life, are alien to our spirit's demands and needs. Your socialists and <a href="/wiki/Internationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Internationalist">internationalists</a> are not serious. The charm of these movements, the attraction, such as it is, which they exercise, is only in their struggle: it is the fight which draws your gentile radicals. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Samuel" title="Maurice Samuel">Maurice Samuel</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/you-gentiles-maurice-samuel-1924-217pgs-rel.sml/page/152/mode/1up">You Gentiles</a></i>, pp. 152-153</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Scruton" title="Roger Scruton">Roger Scruton</a>, "Eliot and Conservatism" (p. 208), <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0826493912"><i>A Political Philosophy</i></a> (2006), Continuum Books</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Why is it after a century of socialist disasters, and an intellectual legacy that has been time and again exploded, the left-wing position remains, as it were, the default position to which thinking people gravitate when called upon for a comprehensive philosophy? Why are "<a href="/wiki/Right-wing_politics" title="Right-wing politics">right-wingers</a>" marginalised in the educational system, denounced in the media and regarded by our political class as untouchable, fit only to clean up after the orgies of luxurious nonsense indulged in by their moral superiors? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Scruton" title="Roger Scruton">Roger Scruton</a>, <i>Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Thinkers of the New Left</i> (Bloomsbury, 2015)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see <a href="/wiki/Football_in_England" title="Football in England">football</a>, the way I see life. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Shankly" title="Bill Shankly">Bill Shankly</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Qe7NCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT162&lpg=PT162&dq=%22The+socialism+I+believe+in+is+everyone+working+for+each+other,+everyone+having+a+share+of+the+rewards.+It%27s+the+way+I+see+football,+the+way+I+see+life.%22&source=bl#v=onepage">Shankly's Village: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Glenbuck and its Famous Footballing Sons</a></i>. Worthing, UK: Pitch. 2015. <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781785310706" title="Special:BookSources/9781785310706">ISBN 9781785310706</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC" class="extiw" title="w:OCLC">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://worldcat.org/oclc/931595421">931595421</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved on 2016-08-18</span>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Shankly%27s+Village%3A+The+Extraordinary+Life+and+Times+of+Glenbuck+and+its+Famous+Footballing+Sons&rft.date=2015&rft.place=Worthing%2C+UK&rft.pub=Pitch&rft_id=info:oclcnum/931595421&rft.isbn=9781785310706&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DQe7NCgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT162%26lpg%3DPT162%26dq%3D%2522The%2Bsocialism%2BI%2Bbelieve%2Bin%2Bis%2Beveryone%2Bworking%2Bfor%2Beach%2Bother%2C%2Beveryone%2Bhaving%2Ba%2Bshare%2Bof%2Bthe%2Brewards.%2BIt%2527s%2Bthe%2Bway%2BI%2Bsee%2Bfootball%2C%2Bthe%2Bway%2BI%2Bsee%2Blife.%2522%26source%3Dbl%23v%3Donepage&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Socialism"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Under Socialism, you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you liked it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live, you would have to live well. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>, <i>The Intelligent Woman's Guide: To Socialism and Capitalism</i>, New York: NY, Brentano (1928) p. 670</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>As we know, socialism is calculational chaos. Rational appraisement and allocation are eternally elusive. It is a gigantic negative-sum game in which each player quickly grabs a piece of the pie, and all the while the pie shrinks before the players' eyes. The welfare/warfare state, the interventionist state, is no improvement. Each intervention begets yet another. <a href="/wiki/Bureaucracy" title="Bureaucracy">Bureaucracy</a> is the only 'industry' guaranteed to experience growth. Each new regulation taxes the private sector, relentlessly shifting resources out of the hands of the productive, and into the hands of the unproductive. Capitalism is the only positive-sum game in town. <ul><li>Larry J. Sechrest, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mises.org/story/2921">"The Anti-Capitalists : Barbarians at the Gate"</a>, Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture at the Austrian Scholars Conference in Auburn, Alabama (15 March 2008)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> <i>David Graham "Inside the Mind of George Bernard Shaw"</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is far more likely that by the time <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">nationalization</a> has become the rule, and private enterprise the exception, Socialism (which is really rather a bad name for the business) will be spoken of, if at all, as a crazy <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a> held by a fanatical sect in that darkest of <a href="/wiki/Dark_Ages" title="Dark Ages">dark ages</a>, the nineteenth century. Already, indeed, I am told that Socialism has had its day, and that the sooner we stop talking nonsense about it and set to work, like the practical people we are, to nationalize the coal mines and complete a national electrification scheme, the better. And I, who said forty years ago that we should have had Socialism already but for the Socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing. What I meant by my jibe at the Socialists of the eighteen-eighties was that nothing is ever done, and much is prevented, by people who do not realize that they cannot do everything at once. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a>, <i>The Intelligent Woman's Guide To Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism, And Fascism</i> (1928)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of <a href="/wiki/Mental_health" title="Mental health">mental illness</a> more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual — and his rights — as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Neil_Smith" class="extiw" title="w:L. Neil Smith">L. Neil Smith</a>, in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle510-20090315-02.html">"Cambodian Road Trip," (15 March 2009)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>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 <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the <a href="/wiki/Gospel" title="Gospel">Gospel</a> asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" title="Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn">Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</a>, Interview published in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/art/an-interview-with-alexander-solzhenitsyn.html"><i>St. Austin Review</i></a>, 2 no. 2 (February 2003)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Solzhenitsyn" class="extiw" title="w:Alexander Solzhenitsyn">Alexander Solzhenitsyn</a>, commencement address speech (“A World Split Apart”) at Harvard University (8 June 1978)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Sorel" title="Georges Sorel">Georges Sorel</a> as quoted in <i>Essays in Political Philosophy</i>, Vidya Dhar Mahajan, Doaba House, Lahore, 1943, p. 41</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And so I am not concerned to justify the <i>perpetrators of violence</i> but to enquire into the function of <i>the violence of the working classes</i> in contemporary socialism. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Sorel" title="Georges Sorel">Georges Sorel</a> in: <i>Reflections on Violence</i> (1908), Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 42</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everyone explains that discussions about Socialism are exceedingly obscure; this obscurity is due, to a large extent, to the fact that contemporary socialists use a terminology which no longer corresponds to their ideas. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Sorel" title="Georges Sorel">Georges Sorel</a> in: <i>Reflections on Violence</i> (1908), Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 47</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Thus proletarian violence has become an essential factor in Marxism. Let us add once more that, if properly conducted, it will have the result of suppressing parliamentary socialism, which will no longer be able to pose as the leader of the working classes and as the guardian of order. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Sorel" title="Georges Sorel">Georges Sorel</a> in: <i>Reflections on Violence</i> (1908), Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 79</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell">Thomas Sowell</a>, <i>The Thomas Sowell Reader</i>, New York: NY, Basic Books (2011) p. 144, <i>Forbes</i> magazine, "The survival of the left" (8 September 1997)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell">Thomas Sowell</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/31/socialism-for-the-uninformed-n2171042">"Socialism for the Uninformed"</a> (31 May 2016), <i>Town Hall</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Capitalist enterprises buy components from others who have lower costs in producing those particular components, and sell their own output to whatever middlemen can most efficiently carry out its distribution. But a socialist economy may forego these advantages of specialization; and for perfectly rational reasons, given the very different circumstances in which they operate. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell">Thomas Sowell</a>, <i>Basic Economics</i>, 4th ed. (2010), Ch. 6. The Role of Profits—and Losses</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people—like themselves—need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Sowell" title="Thomas Sowell">Thomas Sowell</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1040045287409111040">Twitter post</a> (12 September 2018)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>All socialism involves <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a>. What is essential to the idea of a slave? We primarily think of him as one who is owned by another. To be more than nominal, however, the ownership must be shown by control of the slave’s actions, a control which is habitually for the benefit of the controller. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Spencer" title="Herbert Spencer">Herbert Spencer</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/all-socialism-involves-slavery">"The Coming Slavery"</a>, <i>The Contemporary Review</i> (April 1884), p. 474. This essay was reprinted in chapter 2 of his book, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/all-socialism-involves-slavery"><i>Man vs. the State</i></a> (1884)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Spengler" title="Oswald Spengler">Oswald Spengler</a>, <i>The Hour Of Decision, Part One : Germany and World-Historical Evolution</i> (1934)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The difference matters a lot when comparing socialist and capitalist systems and assessing transitions between those systems. Socialist policies can keep the cost of meeting basic needs low in a way overall price measures don’t pick up. <ul><li>Dylan Sullivan, <a href="/wiki/Jason_Hickel" title="Jason Hickel">Jason Hickel</a> and Michail Moatsos, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theconversation.com/chinas-capitalist-reforms-are-said-to-have-moved-800-million-out-of-extreme-poverty-new-data-suggests-the-opposite-216621">China's capitalist reforms are said to have moved 800 million out of extreme poverty – new data suggests the opposite</a>". <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation_(website)" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Conversation (website)">The Conversation</a></i> (7 January 2024)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="T">T</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Donald_J._Trump_at_2019_State_of_the_Union_(46092930285)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Donald_J._Trump_at_2019_State_of_the_Union_%2846092930285%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Donald_J._Trump_at_2019_State_of_the_Union_%2846092930285%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Donald_J._Trump_at_2019_State_of_the_Union_%2846092930285%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Donald_J._Trump_at_2019_State_of_the_Union_%2846092930285%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Donald_J._Trump_at_2019_State_of_the_Union_%2846092930285%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Donald_J._Trump_at_2019_State_of_the_Union_%2846092930285%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1213" data-file-height="1583" /></a><figcaption>Socialism promises prosperity, but it delivers poverty. Socialism promises unity, but it delivers hatred and it delivers division, socialism promises a better future, but it always returns to the darkest chapters of the past. That never fails. It always happens. ~ <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fascism" title="Fascism">Fascism</a> presented itself not only as an alternative, but also as the heir to socialism. The original revolutionary dynamism of socialism was inspired by a universal creed poised to achieve an international revolutionary breakthrough. Once it succumbed to reformism, its internationalism changed from a militant crusade designed to change the world into simple bourgeois pacifism to be blown to the winds when emotional, idealistic and practical movements storm the hearts of peoples. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Talmon" title="Jacob Talmon">Jacob Talmon</a>, <i>The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution: The Origins of Ideological Polarization in the 20th Century</i> (1981), p. 501</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Wealth in modern societies is distributed according to opportunity; and while opportunity depends partly upon talent and energy, it depends still more upon birth, social position, access to education and inherited wealth; in a word, upon property. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._H._Tawney" title="R. H. Tawney">R. H. Tawney</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Acquisitive_Society" title="The Acquisitive Society">The Acquisitive Society</a></i> (1920)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If by "Property" is meant the personal possessions which the word suggests to nine-tenths of the population, the object of socialists is not to undermine property but to protect and increase it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._H._Tawney" title="R. H. Tawney">R. H. Tawney</a>, <i>The Acquisitive Society</i> (1920)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism accepts... the principles, which are the cornerstones of democracy, that authority to justify its title , must rest on consent; that power is tolerable only so far as it is accountable to the public; and that differences of character and capacity between human beings, however important on their own plane, are of minor importance when compared with the capital fact of their common humanity. Its object is to extend the application of those principles from the sphere of civil and political rights, where, at present, they are nominally recognized, to that of economic and social organization, where they are systematically and insolently defined. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/R._H._Tawney" title="R. H. Tawney">R. H. Tawney</a>, <i>Equality</i> (1931), p. 197</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Rights groups worldwide celebrate <a href="/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day" title="International Women's Day">International Women’s Day (IWD)</a>...as they commemorate women’s achievements and call for equality. But for an event championed by international <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organization" title="Non-governmental organization">nongovernmental organizations</a> and major <a href="/wiki/Multinational_corporation" title="Multinational corporation">global corporations</a>, it may surprise some that IWD was born out of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/socialism_in_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:socialism in the United States">U.S. socialist movement</a> in the early <a href="/wiki/20th_century" title="20th century">20th century</a>. In 1909 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_of_America" class="extiw" title="w:Socialist Party of America">Socialist Party of America</a> organized a <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> march commemorating a garment workers’ strike the previous year. The party called it National Women’s Day, and women organized by the group demonstrated for better pay and working conditions as well as the right to vote, according to the International Women’s Day website. The Socialist Party continued to hold Women’s Day celebrations on the last Sunday of February for the next few years, and newspapers from the era mentioned International Women’s Day on Feb. 27, 1910 — when thousands of women organized by the socialist movement gathered at <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a>, according to World March of Women, an international grass-roots campaign. European women, meanwhile, were championing similar ideals. At the second annual meeting of the International Conference of Working Women in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen" class="extiw" title="w:Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a> in 1910, <a href="/wiki/Clara_Zetkin" title="Clara Zetkin">Clara Zetkin</a>, a prominent <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxist</a> activist from Germany’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany" class="extiw" title="w:Social Democratic Party of Germany">Social Democratic Party</a>, proposed the idea of holding an international day for women. She thought that women should press for their demands for equality and suffrage on a single day of celebration. The conference agreed. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/7/socialist-history-of-international-womens-day.html">Marisa Taylor, The socialist roots of International Women’s Day, <i>Aljazeera America</i></a>, (8 March 2015)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=102953">TV interview for Thames TV <i>This Week</i></a> (5 February 1976)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialists cry "Power to the people," and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean—power <i>over</i> people, power to the State. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a>, in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106348">speech to Conservative Central Council</a> (15 March, 1986)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is a new form of slavery. ... As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville" title="Alexis de Tocqueville">Alexis de Tocqueville</a>, "Notes for a Speech on Socialism" (1848), quoted in <i>The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics</i>, eds. Olivier Zunz and Alan S. Kahan (2002), p. 250</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Hitler's socialism was his own and subordinate to his secret aims. His concept of organized economy was close to genuine socialism but he would be a socialist only so long as it served the greater goal. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Toland_(author)" class="extiw" title="w:John Toland (author)">John Toland (author)</a> <i>Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography</i> (1992), p 314</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A nationalized planned economy needs democracy, as the human body needs oxygen. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> in a statement of 1936, as quoted in <i>The Informed Vision: Essays On Learning And Human Nature </i> (2002) by David Hawkins, p. 25; sometimes paraphrased "Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>One of the most serious challenges our countries face is the specter of socialism. It’s the wrecker of nations and destroyer of societies. Events in <a href="/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> remind us all that <b>socialism and communism are not about justice, they are not about <a href="/wiki/Equality" title="Equality">equality</a>, they are not about lifting up the poor, and they are certainly not about the good of the nation. Socialism and communism are about one thing only: power for the ruling class</b>. Today, I repeat a message for the world that I have delivered at home: <b>America will never be a socialist country</b>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-74th-session-united-nations-general-assembly/">Remarks to the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly</a> September 25 2019</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. America was founded on liberty and independence — and not government coercion, domination and control. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, 2019 State of the Union Address</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is a sad and discredited <a href="/wiki/Ideology" title="Ideology">ideology</a> rooted in the total ignorance of history and human nature, which is why socialism must always give rise to tyranny ... Socialism is about one thing only: power for the ruling class. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, as quoted in <i>Trump: ‘America Will Never Be A Socialist Country’</i>, Daily Wire, February 19 2019</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism promises prosperity, but it delivers poverty. Socialism promises unity, but it delivers hatred and it delivers division, socialism promises a better future, but it always returns to the darkest chapters of the past. That never fails. It always happens. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, as quoted in <i>Trump: ‘America Will Never Be A Socialist Country’</i>, Daily Wire, February 19 2019</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="V">V</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: V"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I certainly embrace socialism. I can’t see any other solutions. This country the United States could feed the world if it wanted to. <ul><li><i>Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte</i> (2006)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="W">W</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the European century that began in the 1840s from <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Engels" title="Friedrich Engels">Engels</a>'s article of 1849 down to the death of <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a>, everyone who advocated <a href="/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">genocide</a> called himself a socialist, and no exception has been found. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Watson_(scholar)" class="extiw" title="w:George Watson (scholar)">George Watson</a>, <i>The Lost Literature of Socialism</i> (1998) p. 80</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is the total opposite of <a href="/wiki/Capitalism" title="Capitalism">capitalism</a>/<a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a>. It is the rejection of <a href="/wiki/Empire" title="Empire">empire</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacy</a>. Socialism is the violent overthrow of the <a href="/wiki/Bourgeoisie" title="Bourgeoisie">bourgeoisie</a>, the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat" title="Dictatorship of the proletariat">dictatorship of the proletariat</a>, and the eradication of the <a href="/wiki/Social_system" title="Social system">social system</a> based on <a href="/wiki/Profit" title="Profit">profit</a>. Socialism means control of the productive forces for the good of the whole community instead of the few who live on hilltops and in mansions. Socialism means priorities based on human need instead of corporate <a href="/wiki/Greed" title="Greed">greed</a>. Socialism creates the conditions for a decent and creative quality of life for all. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Weather_Underground" title="The Weather Underground">The Weather Underground</a>, <i>Prairie Fire</i> (1974)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The idea of <a href="/wiki/Property" title="Property">property</a> arises out of the combative instincts of the species. Long before men were men, the ancestral ape was a proprietor. Primitive property is what a beast will fight for. The dog and his bone, the tigress and her lair, the roaring stag and his herd, these are proprietorship blazing. No more nonsensical expression is conceivable in <a href="/wiki/Sociology" title="Sociology">sociology</a> than the term "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism" class="extiw" title="w:Primitive communism">primitive communism</a>." Society, therefore, is from its beginnings the mitigation of ownership. Ownership in the beast and in the primitive savage was far more intense a thing than it is in the civilized world today. It is rooted more strongly in our instincts than in our reason. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H.G._Wells" class="mw-redirect" title="H.G. Wells">H.G. Wells</a>, "Pause In Reconstruction And The Dawn Of Modern Socialism", in <i>The Outline of History</i> (1919)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Socialism is not a <a href="/wiki/Bombs" title="Bombs">bomb</a> thrown at the natural institution of <a href="/wiki/Society" title="Society">society</a>, but a well-considered <a href="/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine">medicine</a> for a diseased <a href="/wiki/Community" title="Community">community</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_West" title="Rebecca West">Rebecca West</a>, "A Training in Trucelence", in <i>The Clarion,</i> (14 February 1913), re-published in <i>The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17</i> (1982), p. 157.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Yet there was an air of good humor about their idealism that made me feel they would not be too offended if I admitted that I regard socialists as well-meaning but muddle-headed brigands. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Wilson" title="Colin Wilson">Colin Wilson</a> in <i>Access to Inner Worlds</i>, p. 30</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Nothing has spread Socialistic feeling in this country more than the use of automobiles. To the countryman they are a picture of arrogance of wealth with all its independence and carelessness. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a> before a dinner at the North Carolina Society as quoted in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0910F63B5A12738DDDAD0894DB405B868CF1D3"><i>New York Times</i></a> (March 4, 1906)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A study has found that weaker men are more likely to be in favour of <a href="/wiki/Redistribution_of_income_and_wealth" title="Redistribution of income and wealth">redistributive</a> <a href="/wiki/Taxation" title="Taxation">taxation</a>. <ul><li><b>Weak men more likely to be socialists, study claims</b>, The Times, May 24 2017, Tom Whipple</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Y">Y</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Y"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>From the human point of view, return paid to <a href="/wiki/Capital" title="Capital">non-human factors of production</a> is unearned. ... The employment of capital instruments and natural resources in economic production requires no personal hardship or exertion from any human being. The economic services provided by these factors of production are not corporeally inherent in human beings. The opposite is true of labor services, which can only be provided through the physical and mental activity of human beings. ... The really grossly exaggerated personal incomes in society are dominated by property income, and this source of inequality would be abrogated by the equalization of property income distribution. <ul><li>James A. Yunker, "The Social Dividend Under Market Socialism," <i>Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics</i>, Vol. 48, No. 1 (1977), pp. 93-133</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Z">Z</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>We can now reintroduce genuine socialism to a world feeling the sickness of capitalism-its <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalist</a> hatreds, its perpetual <a href="/wiki/War" title="War">warfare</a>, riches for a small number of people in a small number of countries, and <a href="/wiki/Hunger" title="Hunger">hunger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Homelessness" title="Homelessness">homelessness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Insecurity" class="mw-redirect" title="Insecurity">insecurity</a> for everyone else. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Zinn" title="Howard Zinn">Howard Zinn</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/EDebs_Socialism_HZOH.html"><i>Eugene Debs and the Idea of Socialism</i>,</a> excerpted from the book <i>Howard Zinn on History</i> (2000)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the era of <a href="/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs" title="Eugene V. Debs">Debs</a>, the first seventeen years of the twentieth century-until war created an opportunity to crush the movement-millions of Americans declared their adherence to the principles of socialism. Those were years of bitter labor struggles, the great walkouts of women garment workers in New York, the victorious multi-ethnic strike of textile workers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence,_Massachusetts" class="extiw" title="w:Lawrence, Massachusetts">Lawrence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>, the unbelievable courage of coal miners in <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a>, defying the <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wealth" title="Wealth">wealth</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefellers" class="extiw" title="w:Rockefellers">Rockefellers</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World" title="Industrial Workers of the World">I.W.W.</a> was born-revolutionary, militant, demanding "one big <a href="/wiki/Trade_union" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade union">union</a>" for everyone, skilled and unskilled, <a href="/wiki/Black_people" title="Black people">black</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">white</a>, <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">men</a> and <a href="/wiki/Women" title="Women">women</a>, native-born and foreign-born... Socialism was especially strong in the Southwest, among tenant farmers, railroad workers, coal miners, lumberjacks. <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, home of the fiery <a href="/wiki/Kate_Richards_O%27Hare" title="Kate Richards O'Hare">Kate Richards O'Hare</a> (jailed for opposing the war, she hurled a book through a skylight to bring fresh air into the foul-smelling jail block, bringing cheers from her fellow inmates) had 12,000 dues paying members in 1914 and over a hundred socialists in local offices. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Zinn" title="Howard Zinn">Howard Zinn</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/EDebs_Socialism_HZOH.html"><i>Eugene Debs and the Idea of Socialism</i>,</a> excerpted from the book <i>Howard Zinn on History</i> (2000)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Anyone who goes around the country, or reads carefully the public opinion surveys over the past decade, can see that huge numbers of Americans agree on what should be the fundamental elements of a decent society: guaranteed food, <a href="/wiki/House" title="House">housing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Medical_care" class="mw-redirect" title="Medical care">medical care</a> for everyone; bread and butter as better guarantees of "<a href="/wiki/National_security" title="National security">national security</a>" than <a href="/wiki/Guns" class="mw-redirect" title="Guns">guns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bombs" title="Bombs">bombs</a>, democratic control of <a href="/wiki/Corporate_power" class="mw-redirect" title="Corporate power">corporate power</a>, <a href="/wiki/Equal_rights" class="mw-redirect" title="Equal rights">equal rights</a> for all races, genders and sexual orientations, a recognition of the rights of <a href="/wiki/Immigration" title="Immigration">immigrants</a> as the unrecognized counterparts of our parents and grandparents, the rejection of war and <a href="/wiki/Violence" title="Violence">violence</a> as solutions for tyranny and injustice. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Zinn" title="Howard Zinn">Howard Zinn</a> in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/EDebs_Socialism_HZOH.html"><i>Eugene Debs and the Idea of Socialism</i>,</a> excerpted from the book <i>Howard Zinn on History</i> (2000)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a> that <a class="mw-selflink selflink">socialism</a> gave every man and enshrined in its <a href="/wiki/Constitutions" title="Constitutions">constitution</a> is the freedom not to be a <a href="/wiki/Begging" title="Begging">beggar</a> and not to be exploited. Freedom from the fear of losing one’s job tomorrow, of being unable to pay for one’s <a href="/wiki/House" title="House">housing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Food" title="Food">food</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clothing" title="Clothing">clothing</a> and vital <a href="/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine">medicines</a>. Of not being able to pay for the <a href="/wiki/Education" title="Education">education</a> and feed one’s children. Not being able to support elderly parents. A freedom to feel a full individual and not a human good sold in the labour market. A freedom that was granted to all regardless of their background, nationality or profession. To <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">workers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peasant" title="Peasant">peasants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scientists" title="Scientists">scientists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Artists" class="mw-redirect" title="Artists">artists</a>. Only such freedom can be recognised as true freedom. Its absence makes all the other freedoms meaningless. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gennady_Zyuganov" title="Gennady Zyuganov">Gennady Zyuganov</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cprf.ru/2017/11/socialism-is-genuine-freedom/">"Socialism Is Genuine Freedom"</a> (22 November 2017)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In this struggle we are inspired by the example of those countries where staunch supporters of the socialist option are in power. They are <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> which has the world in awe of its spectacular successes in the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_China" title="Economy of China">economy</a> and the social sphere. <a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a>, which the <a href="/wiki/American_imperialism" title="American imperialism">US imperialism</a> has vainly tried to strangle for six decades. The dynamically developing <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>. These countries challenge capitalist <a href="/wiki/Globalization" title="Globalization">globalization</a>, refuse to submit to their diktat and score successes on the socialist path. The experience of fraternal <a href="/wiki/Byelorussia" class="mw-redirect" title="Byelorussia">Byelorussia</a> is highly instructive. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gennady_Zyuganov" title="Gennady Zyuganov">Gennady Zyuganov</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cprf.ru/2017/11/socialism-is-genuine-freedom/">"Socialism Is Genuine Freedom"</a> (22 November 2017)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Socialism&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r3507533">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output table.multicol>tr>td,.mw-parser-output table.multicol>tbody>tr>td{display:block!important;width:100%!important;padding:0!important}}.mw-parser-output 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style="background:#E4F2E4">Modalities</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Absolutism" title="Absolutism">Absolutism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Social_constructionism" title="Social constructionism">Social constructionism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Relativism" title="Relativism">Relativism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Autarky" title="Autarky">Autarky</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Autonomy" title="Autonomy">Autonomy</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Heteronomy" title="Heteronomy">Heteronomy</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Authoritarianism" title="Authoritarianism">Authoritarianism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">Totalitarianism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">Colonialism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">Imperialism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Communitarianism" title="Communitarianism">Communitarianism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Liberalism" title="Liberalism">Liberalism</a> ⦿ <a href="/wiki/Elitism" title="Elitism">Elitism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a 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title="Reactionism">Reactionism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Traditionalism" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditionalism">Traditionalism</a> <b>vs.</b> <a href="/wiki/Futurism" title="Futurism">Futurism</a><b>/</b><a href="/wiki/Transhumanism" title="Transhumanism">Transhumanism</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#E4F2E4">Concepts</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alienation" title="Alienation">Alienation</a> ⦿ <i><a href="/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis" title="Samuel T. 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