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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 20:12:49 -0700
From: mcpherso@macvax.UCSD.EDU (John Mcpherson)
Subject: SOCIALISM: Interesting Quotations
To: ca-liberty@shell.portal.com, libernet-d@Dartmouth.EDU,

   I've been collecting quotations, and here are some particularly
interesting ones.  Share them with your friends! (and perhaps post
some of _your_ favorites) -- John McPherson

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"The children who know how to think for themselves, spoil the harmony 
 of the collective society that is coming, where everyone (would be)
 interdependent."  1899
"Independent self-reliant people (would be) a counterproductive anachronism
 in the collective society of the future [...] (where) people will be
 defined by their associations."  1896
	      John Dewey, educational philosopher, proponent of modern 
	      public schools.  [1]

"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education
 from happening.  [...] The average American (should be) content with their
 humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any
 other role."  
	      U.S. Commissioner of Education, William T. Harris, 1889 [1]

"The creation of socialism requires the curtailment of the central
 economic freedom of bourgeois society, namely, the right of individuals
 to own, and therefore to withhold if they wish, the means of production,
 including their own labor. [...] The full preservation of this bourgeois
 freedom would place the attainment of socialism at the mercy of property
 owners who could threaten to deny their services to society, and again,
 I refer to their _labor_, not just their material resources, if their
 terms are not met."
	      Robert Heilbrenner, leading socialist theoretician, 
	      "Marxism: For and Against", 1980 [2]

"In any society where the State is the sole employer, opposition means
 death by slow starvation.  Who does not obey, shall not eat."
	      Leon Trotsky  [2]

    Regarding the nationalization of industry or private property:
"Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a 
 discipline they cannot escape?  Let them own land or factories as
 much as they please.  The decisive factor is that the State, through
 the Party, is supreme over them regardless of whether they are owners
 or workers.  All that is unessential; our socialism goes far deeper.  
 It establishes a relationship of the individual to the State, the
 national community.  Why need we trouble to socialize banks and
 factories?  We socialize human beings."
	      Adolf Hitler to Herman Rauschning, pre-WWII [2]

"Your America is doing many things in the economic field which we
 found out caused us so much trouble. You are trying to control
 people's lives.  And no country can do that part way.  I tried it
 and failed.  Nor can any country do it all the way either.  I tried
 that, too, and it failed."  
	      Herman Goering, Nazi minister, 1946  [3]

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[1] "The Tyranny of Government Schooling", John Gatto, 1992
[2] "Why Does Socialism Continue to Appeal to Anyone?", Robert Hessen
[3] "Healing Our World", Dr. Mary Ruwart, 1992

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