Samora Machel Quotes

No less than 50 percent of the means of production must be in the hands of the state.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

Chinese don't really believe in markets. They like stability, they like control.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

Socialist forms of life could find a much easier realization than through the seizure of all industrial property by the State, and the State organization of agriculture and industry.

When Government has a monopoly of all production and all distribution, as many Governments have, it can not permit any economic activity that competes with it.

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

The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

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

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

The law must have the last word.

'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.

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.

You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

However, given the fact that the State has a controlling stake in the company [Rosneft], it might not be the best course of action when one company under State control buys another one fully owned by the State. This is one point.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.