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“Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.”

Way Political Social Growth Break Economic Periods Capitalism Scales Socialism Expansion Economic Growth Ideological Fetters

Author:Earl Browder

“Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural harmony of interests within each nation... But the "children of darkness" were able to make good use of his creed. A dogma which was intended to guarantee the economic freedom of the individual became the "ideology" of vast corporate structures of a later period of capitalism, used by them, and still used, to prevent a proper political control of their power.”

“Unfettered market American-style capitalism doesn't work. Developing countries can't afford that kind of luxury. They just can't afford it. Period. If there's a mistake, they can't afford to put out $2 trillion.”

Ifs Kind Country Mistake Style Periods Capitalism Luxury Developing Developing Countries

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.”

Periods Capitalism Prominent Hayek

Book:The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty

Source: The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty

“.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.”

Modern Periods Capitalism Intelligent Defenders Hayek Friedrich Hayek

Author:Irving Kristol

“For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.”

World War Whole Periods Standards Capitalism War Of The Worlds Rising Strongest World War Ii World War I Historic

Author:Kshama Sawant

“The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.”