The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it's time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all.
Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.
Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity. You've got to share.
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
In fact, there is an academic blackout about the atrocities perpetrated in the name of communism and socialism.
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'
We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.
It is time we had democratic socialism for working families, not just Wall Street billionaires.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.