Socialism
Bureaucratism
“The chief enemy of the effort to make society more free and equal through any kind of organization is bureaucratism.” ~Max Eastman
Economics
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Economics
Private Property
“The institution of private property is one of the main things that have given man that limited amount of free and equalness that Marx hoped to render infinite.” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Resistance to Tyranny
“Almost everyone who cares earnestly about freedom is aroused against the Communists. But it is not only the Communists, it is in a more subtle way the Socialists who are blocking the efforts of the free world…”
~Max Eastman
Socialism
Socialist Hypothesis
“If the socialist hypothesis were valid in general, some tiny shred of the benefits promised by it would have appeared when the Russian capitalists were expropriated and production taken over by the state…” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Bubble-Castle of Socialist Theory
“A false and undeliberated conception of what man is lies at the bottom, I think, of the whole bubble-castle of socialist theory…” ~Max Eastman
Economics
The Struggle is Still for Freedom
“The struggle is still for freedom; the main facts are still economic; the arch-enemy is still the soft-headed idealist who refuses to face facts.”
~Max Eastman