Axioms Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry…

— John Bates Clark

In our discussions here at the forum there was no trace of the futile debate about what is better, capitalism or socialism...We should seek…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

— Ken MacLeod

“My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions,…

— Marek Edelman

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

— Wilbur Smith

That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

— Salvador Allende

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong…

— Ayn Rand

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

— Aneurin Bevan

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

— Anonymous

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

— Karl Kautsky

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

— Ernest Mandel