Socialism
Free and Equal
“We are still beguiled by this other fairy tale: that a large group of liberal-minded reformers can take charge of the economy and approximate a free and equal society.” ~Max Eastman
Policy
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Economics
Social Equilibrium
“Detached idealists of freedom should regard themselves as a mobile force in defense of the social equilibrium. Their aim at all times should be to prevent the domination of society by any one organized idea or power.” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
States of Passion
“The most persistent and most threatening enemy of the scientific attitude is the disposition of men to think what they want to think, to bend the results, and pervert its authority, to the support of their purposes and states of passion.” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Bureaucratism
“The chief enemy of the effort to make society more free and equal through any kind of organization is bureaucratism.” ~Max Eastman
Religion
Such a Religion as This
“The Marxian policy is to root out all warm and personal religions, and at the same time destroy wonder and a sense of the world’s mystery, by putting a cold and impersonal religion in their place… ~Max Eastman