Backward Quote by John McCarthy

According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the…

— Deng Xiaoping

“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is merely democratic…

— Ayn Rand

I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by a combination…

— Noam Chomsky

The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely socialism

— Richard John Neuhaus

Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism…...Socialism in…

— Gus Hall

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

— Henry Morton Stanley

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous…

— Earl Browder

Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other…

— Milton Friedman

“The contribution Marxism made to the socialism from which it arose was to offer a pseudo-scientific gloss to the ill-defined urges and impulses of…

— Jonah Goldberg

In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is…

— Ludwig von Mises

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making…

— Benjamin Tucker

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

— Ludwig von Mises