In order for quotes to be useful they must be find-able.
For example: When and where was the Hitler quote or the John Stewart Mill quote penned or spoken?
Where are your citations?
Without a citation the quotes are useless
LvM had the best one.
It would be an interesting experiment to turn that quotation, without attribution, into manifesto, and to solicit signatures on a college campus or at the next large gathering of Democrats. What percentage of self-identified Democrats do you think would sign it? What percentage of BLM activists? Union organizers? Bernie Sanders supporters? Delegates to the next Democratic National Convention?
Most Socialists believe that Stealing from anyone not in their own Group is acceptable, and that everyone lies and steals, cheats to have a better life. Socialists then are the bottom-feeders of society, and the worst kind of human existence without hold, honor or God. Essentially, they have forsaken humanity itself.
My hatred of Bolshevism and Bolsheviks is not founded on their silly system of economics or their absurd doctrine of an impossible equality. It arises from the bloody and devastating terrorism which they practice in every land into which they have broken, and by which alone their criminal regime can be maintained.
- Winston Churchill
Any time ‘the State’ is more important, then ‘the individual’, is Socialism.
Any time you cannot do ‘something’, without a permit, license, certificate, or any kind of paper signed by any human sitting in an office, somewhere, is Socialism.
Lastly, anything that is spelled out in plain English, in The Bill of Rights, and is being discussed by politicians, is the harbinger of Socialism.
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“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” —Adolf Hitler
This quote is a matter of contention by historical researchers of Nazism and the Third Reich.
The idea that it was attributed to Hitler is indeed questionable. There are some that have stated in publications that it was from a May Day speech given in 1927 which has no historical proof of transcript or recording. That may indeed be correct.
However Gregor Strasser had a very similar quote that is nearly identical in sentiment but not in wording.
“We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system ! And with my inclination to practical action it seems obvious to me that we have to put a better, more just, more moral system in its place, one which, as it were, has arms and legs and better arms and legs than the present one!”
“Thoughts about the Tasks of the Future” - by Gregor Strasser - 1926 June 15
Obviously Strassers quote precedes Hitler’s quote by almost a year if dates of the timeline are accurate.
The far left aspects of the Nazi party were largely eliminated during the Night of the Long Knives when the SS took out the NSDAP and the brown shirts.
That does not at all eliminate the socialist aspect of the Third Reich or the Nazi party. It was more or less a purge of the near communist aspects of it and replacing it with the socialist and crony capitalism aspects.
“This redistribution of wealth business is trickier than I thought!”
- John Cleese, as a Robin Hood-type character in Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
The rich make the best socialists.