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title: "3 Socialist Experiment Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Jonestown was supposed to be a great socialist experiment, a place where all the evil "isms" would be eradicated: racism, sexism, elitism.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-scheeres/jonestown-was-supposed-to-be-a-great-socialist-experiment-a-place/)

[Julia Scheeres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-scheeres/)

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> [And I don't want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/porter-stansberry/and-i-don-t-want-my-assets-to-be-stuck-inside-a-banana-republic-in/)

[Porter Stansberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/porter-stansberry/)

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> [“The empirical evidence has been much harder on socialism. Economically, in practice the capitalist nations are increasingly productive and prosperous, with no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-r-c-hicks/the-empirical-evidence-has-been-much-harder-on-socialism-economically/)

[Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-r-c-hicks/)

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