Steve Forbes Quotes

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

Communists are frustrated capitalists.

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.

Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other spots, no one in the world today would define socialism that way. That will never come back.

When I was a worker I busied myself with socialist or, if you like, marxist literature.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.

Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.

Socialism is not spontaneous. It does not arise of itself. It has abiding principles according to which the major means of production and distribution ought to be socialised if exploitation of the many by the few is to be prevented; if, that is to say, egalitarianism in the economy is to be protected.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

Let me tell you, communism does not work! Socialism does not work!

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

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

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.