Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

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

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income.

All systems of political administration or governmental machinery are but the reflex of the economic forms which underlie them

If experts were usually right, socialism would prevail.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

I was brought up a working-class Tory. I believe, to be a true socialist, you have to be a capitalist first. In my heart, I'm a socialist; in my mind, I'm a capitalist.

A new poll out taken by a Republican group that shows most Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. Those terms don't mean what they did maybe 40, 50 years ago.

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.

We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going.

As far as social-economic theory is concerned, I am still a Marxist

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.