socialism

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Such impulses have displayed themselves very widely across left and liberal opinion in recent months. Why? For some, because what the US government and its allies do, whatever they do, has to be opposed__nd opposed however thuggish and benighted the forces which this threatens to put your anti-war critic into close company with. For some, because of an uncontrollable animus towards George Bush and his administration. For some, because of a one-eyed perspective on international legality and its relation to issues of international justice and morality. Whatever the case or the combination, it has produced a calamitous compromise of the core values of socialism, or liberalism or both, on the part of thousands of people who claim attachment to them. You have to go back to the apologias for, and fellow-travelling with, the crimes of Stalinism to find as shameful a moral failure of liberal and left opinion as in the wrong-headed__nd too often, in the circumstances, sickeningly smug__pposition to the freeing of the Iraqi people from one of the foulest regimes on the planet.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.