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.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism’s creative destruction of slower industries.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

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

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

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

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Democracy is the road to socialism.