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They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealis...

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Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the...

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Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which w...

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State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then d...

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Friedrich EngelsSocialism: Utopian and Scientific

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its m...

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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they cre...

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Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number o...

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We disapprove of state education. Than the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We o...

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I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anti...

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Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of...

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Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of ...

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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator...

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George Bernard ShawThe Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home

Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from...

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love....

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It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, becau...

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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn hi...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fund...

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George OrwellDown and Out in Paris and London

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less...

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One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them ...

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Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more selle...

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Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiati...

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The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security...

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Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the o...

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You see," I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance ...

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In...

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For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history...

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Hannah ArendtThe Origins of Totalitarianism

In a covenant...among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private p...

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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to de...

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Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was una...

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I am no worshiper of cloth of any color, but I love the red flag and what it symbolizes to me and ot...

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Helen KellerHow I Became a Socialist?: Helen Keller's Articles

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed...

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Helen KellerRebel Lives: Helen Keller

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

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Henry HazlittEconomics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in brin...

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They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it the...

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All Socialism involves slavery.

A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exe...

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Ivan IllichThe Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"...

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Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help.

Socialists try to convince us that the tea becomes sweet not because of sugar, but because of mixing...

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Whenever socialism appears it destroys at least one thing: diversity. Everything has to be "the best...

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I was reading in the paper today that Congress wants to replace the dollar bill with a coin. They’ve...

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It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that r...

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Then all at once he´d hear his own voice enunciating clearly and firmly, feel its reverberance along...

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Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the s...

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They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being...

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No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty;...

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The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end ...

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John Stuart MillPrinciples of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism

Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and ...

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If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicki...

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Jonah GoldbergLiberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Re...

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Jonah GoldbergLiberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freed...

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Jonah GoldbergThe Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to buil...

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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wonderin...

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The first duty of a man is to think for himself

Marxian Socialism and Bolshevism are two historical phenomena which have hardly a single common deno...

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It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exe...

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Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a di...

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If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather suffici...

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No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled ...

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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations ...

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Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible witho...

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Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directio...

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Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police st...

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Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

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Karl MarxDas Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various way; the point, however, is to change it

Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change i...

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The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; th...

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Karl MarxEssential Writings of Karl Marx: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilit...

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The bourgeois during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossa...

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When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been ...

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The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the...

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Karl MarxThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

...it happens that "society is saved" as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as oft...

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Karl MarxThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a ...

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Kevin D. WilliamsonThe Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the o...

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The more laws and restrictions there are,The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations,...

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‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sha...

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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every p...

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Leon TrotskyTerrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic:...

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Leon TrotskyTerrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulti...

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The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows th...

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Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has ...

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The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method pos...

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Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

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