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“What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?”

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Author:Don Feder

“The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“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

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Author:Ricardo Semler

“Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.”

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Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.”

“People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“I'm just a socialist at heart.”

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Author:Ted Turner