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In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

— David Horowitz

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false.

— Robert Zubrin

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

— Brad Thor

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

— Thomas Sowell

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

— Oswald Spengler

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

— Wen Jiabao

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

— Dario Fo

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

— Margaret Thatcher

Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.

— Bob Latta

✗Opposing Perspectives

Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

— Earl Browder

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

— Benjamin Tucker