John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

What is the difference between Capitalism and Communism? Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the opposite.

The problem is capitalism. The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed

Marxism does not make sense, and I am the first one to say this

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

I'm a Marxist.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I'm choosing to be a part of this system, thus I'm choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

George Brown ... represents the theory of Marxism in the House of Commons - but that of Groucho, not Karl.

Communism is nonsense.

Capitalism did not arise because capitalists stole the land and the workmen's tools, but because it was more efficient than feudalism. It will perish because it is not merely less efficient than socialism, but actually self-destructive.

Communism has had its success in this century as a reaction against a certain type of unbridaled capitalism.