Command Economy Quotes

Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

The economy of communism is an economy which grows in an atmosphere of misery and want.

When Government has a monopoly of all production and all distribution, as many Governments have, it can not permit any economic activity that competes with it.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

Indeed, if communist central planners could have organized the economy with as much detail, precision, and flexibility as a modern-day Toyota or Wal-Mart, communism would probably still exist.

I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the government had tried to manage the economy really intensely, and it ended up being bad for the citizens there. I found myself beginning to lean more right on economic issues.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.