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“The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.”

Mean Party Class Struggle Economy Creation Objectives Communist Socialist Class Struggle Communist Party Utilization Socialist Economy

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.”

Government America Economy Definitions Dependent Socialist Federal Government Socialist Economy

Author:Christine O'Donnell

“American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.”

School Principles Economy Failing Models Organized Socialist Public School Socialist Economy

Author:David Boaz

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.”

Men Want Culture Social Sides Economy Development Ethics Management Improvement Socialist Equity Promotion Social Life Development Of Society

Book:Nicolae Ceaușescu, builder of modern Romania and international statesman

Source: Nicolae Ceaușescu, builder of modern Romania and international statesman

“Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a revolutionary capitalist instead of a revolutionary socialist.”

Wisdom Might Politics Principles Economy Understood Appearance Revolutionary Liberalism Capitalist Socialist Distribution Implications

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.”

“No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.”

Wisdom Politics Economy Catholic Liberalism Sincere Socialist

Book:Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

Source: Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order

“It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.”

Way Wisdom Politics Economy Thirds Critics Liberalism Productive Capitalist New Ways Socialist Humane Exhilarating

Author:Ricardo Semler

“During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.”

Want Needs Bigs Government Order Pay Economy Effects Periods Taxes Finance Efficient Socialist Big Government

Author:Antonis Samaras

“We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by the army but by the entire Soviet people. The Socialist economy, Soviet political structure, and Marxist-Leninist ideology proved their unarguable excellence against the Fascist economy, Fascist political structure, and Fascist ideology of Germany.”

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Author:Ivan Bagramyan

“We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.”

Seems Earth Economy Socialist Socialist Economy

Author:William Pfaff

“If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Long Strong Force Enjoy Effort Enemy Economy Regret Fine Development Benefits Excellent Socialist Armed Forces Fatherland Socialist Economy

Author:Kliment Voroshilov

“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).”

“We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose the path of a socialist market economy. We have achieved strong economic growth, and yet the sense of solidarity in our society has not been lost. This is very important to people.”