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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

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When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly what's been…
Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other…
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there…
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic…
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over…
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion…
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The…
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.…
A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.

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Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee… — Leonard Peikoff
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has been another… — Daniel Dennett
What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed… — Immanuel Wallerstein
What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who… — Grover Furr
Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists. — Augusto Pinochet
Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not… — Friedrich Engels
Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom. — Margaret Thatcher
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities. — Milton Friedman
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics. — Jose Bergamin
Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism. — Nick Cohen
Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America. — Phyllis Schlafly
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and… — Kenny Smith

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