Karel Capek Quotes
Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
Capek, Karel. "Why I Am Not a Communist." Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader, edited by Peter Kussi, Catbird Press, 1990, p. 132.
Many people had come to the conclusion that capitalism as it then existed was not sufficient to correct some of the serious inequities in society. They saw that socialism tended more to focus on those. However, they also saw in socialism per se, as it was than advocated, many other problems. Steffens seems to be the first person to describe that type of person, in this case, himself.
At the time, this was not popular with many socialists who had given up on the lack of fairness and equity of the capitalistic system. A century later, most politicians and political philosophers had given up on socialism ever meeting Bauer’s test, and Capitalism was well ensconced in Western Democracies.
She was proposing s radically different pattern of work and economic structure--one of the few really original ideas. All Americans between 18-26 years of age would serve the nation and be assigned to producing and providing the necessities of life for all of society.—Food, Shelter, Health Care etc, See Quotation 644625 for more details,
Karel Čapek was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word robot. He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time. Influenced by American pragmatic liberalism, he campaigned in favour of free expression and strongly opposed the rise of both fascism and communism in Europe.
