Pierre Leroux Quotes

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Don't talk to me about socialism. What we have, we hold.

Ownership of the means of production was an obsession to be abandoned. What mattered was the state’s control over the economy.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

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

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

There is a real fear around shifting from our existing economic system because people believe it gives us social organisation, a sense of freedom, and the ability to be nice to each other. Growth is seen as a social lubricant that allows us to be socially responsible.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

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

Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

A communist is a man who has nothing and wishes to share it with the world.

Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

If experts were usually right, socialism would prevail.

Marxist literature dealt with wage exploitation, exploitation of women by men, the exploitation of people of color by white peoples, the exploitation of colonial countries by imperialist countries. And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read.