819 Quotes About Socialism

No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except for the ones that succeed.

Adding the word 'Democratic' to the word 'Socialism' doesn't change the fact that it's still 'Socialism'.

... much of the Democrat party is set on telling us which car to drive, the temperature our thermostats should be set on and whether or not we should be allowed to eat meat.

It [the proletariat] should and must at once undertake socialist measures in the most energetic, unyielding and unhesitant fashion, in other words, exercise a dictatorship, but a dictatorship of the class, not of a party or of a clique – dictatorship of the class, that means in the broadest possible form on the basis of the most active, unlimited participation of the mass of the people, of unlimited democracy.

The results of a Democratic Socialist society are no different from a plain old Socialist society. Sure, adding the word 'Democratic' may make people feel better about the idea of mob rule or elite control, but the outcomes are the same.

Socialism simply substitutes the judgment of the individual with the judgment of a few arrogant elites, not so dissimilar to slave owners.

Today's left would have us forget that the pseudo-science of eugenics was once all the rage among socialists.

Of this economic Stoicism of the Classical world the exact antithesis is Socialism, meaning thereby not Marx's theory but Frederick William I's Prussian practice which long prededed Marx and will displace him – the socialism […] that comprehends and cares for permanent economic relations, trains the individual in his duty to the whole, and glorifies hard work as an affirmation of Time and Future.

You can excuse these socialists all you want as "men and women of their times". But never forget that they were socialists and that they saw state planning of the family as no different than state planning of the economy or a rancher's planning for his cattle breeding.