Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense of the word All economic change, therefore, would involve operations the value of which could neither be predicted beforehand nor ascertained after they had taken place. Everything would be a leap in the dark. Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.
Socialism is overcoming certain difficulties, it is working in order to try to achieve social advances, to really achieve a society where everybody improves, not where just the elite improve and the others get worse.
The main task of Socialism - the organization of Socialist production - remains still in the future.
I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.
The reason I like socialism is that it's kind of enforced Christianity. It's basically very Christian, in the sense of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you. " These people have nothing, so you have to share.
And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were the Fascist and Soviet republics. Fascism is a form of socialism - you rebuild the country, you find a scapegoat, and you go from there.
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.
For the love of god, find something actually socially useful to do with your money. Because if you don`t, socialism`s going to start looking a lot better to a whole lot of people.
Why doesn't pope say to every Mexican living in America, "Go back to Mexico! That's your home! Socialism is preferable. " Why does he want them to stay? Because they are going to convert this place, folks. That's what this is all about.
Socialism never took root in America.
Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?
Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
Under national "socialism", there is also only one party. But nothing will come out of this fascist one-party system.
We approach closer and closer to socialism.
When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.
I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.
Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.
Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.