Average Quote by Ludwig von Mises

The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical…

— Wilhelm Reich

Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.

— Joseph Stalin

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United…

— Frank Chodorov

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

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist…

— George Orwell

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

— Frans de Waal

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what…

— Erich Fromm

In fact, what were called the socialist countries in Eastern Europe were the most anti-socialist systems in the world. Workers had more rights in…

— Noam Chomsky

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

— Oswald Spengler

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and…

— Joseph Stalin

Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same…

— Kshama Sawant

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

— Angela Merkel