Anonymous Quotes
What is the difference between Capitalism and Communism? Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the opposite.
Widely circulated joke in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Romania, 1960's
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The first sentence is often quoted by conservatives in defense of the capitalistic system. However most do not realize that Haldane was actually a socialist who was opposed to capitalism. They were unaware of the second sentence which would make them as unhappy as the first made them happy.
Li was one of the leaders urging force to repress the demonstration. He was particularly offended by the Chinese students carrying the large “Statue of Liberty,” believing that this was an overt attempt to destabilize China. This was not known till the publication of the so-called “Tiananmen Square Papers” in 2001. The Chinese government claimed that these were forgeries.
Most classic socialists would not agree, but Deng’s approach created the most economically successful socialist economy in history.
At the time extreme socialist doctrine was that the state should own the factories and the other means of industrial production. The socialists believed that the people through their government had to be able to control the economy and the private owners’ greed would always drive the economy for themselves and not for the society in general. Deal was one of the first who argued that there were other, less draconian modes of economic control like government regulation and central banks. Deat turned traitor during WWII and served in the Vichy Nazi cabinet of Pierre Laval. He was sentenced to death for treason but escaped to Italy where he assumed a new identity and then was sheltered by a right-wing Catholic religious order in the convent of San Vito, near Turin, where he wrote his memoirs and lived undiscovered until his death.
