Command Quote by Paul Samuelson

What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet…

— Paul Samuelson

Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an…

— John Dos Passos

“In the end, the “model” that came into existence in the USSR was not socialist but totalitarian. This is a serious matter to be…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This…

— Vladimir Putin

It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt Soviet propaganda…

— Allen W. Wood

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run…

— Barbara Amiel

“One major reason why radical economic reform was almost impossibly difficult to introduce in the Soviet Union was the strength of vested interests –…

— Archie Brown

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“The empirical evidence has been much harder on socialism. Economically, in practice the capitalist nations are increasingly productive and prosperous, with no end in…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

This much I would say: Socialism has failed all over the world. In the eighties, I would hear every day that there is no…

— Subramanian Swamy