{"quotes":[{"text":"Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. 'All this talk about power for the people and down with the ruling classes and everyone should govern themselves. It can never happen, I told him. The ruling classes are born to rule. They know how to do it. You take a person like you or me and you put us up there to run a country and we'd make a ruddy mess of it.","author":"Rhys Bowen","tags":["communism","democratic-socialism","dynasty","england","interesting","royalty","society-problem","trump-administration"],"id":11291,"author_id":"Rhys+Bowen"},{"text":"Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["democracy","democratic","democratic socialism","freedom","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","popular-vote","referendums","socialism","socialist","totalitarian","totalitarianism"],"id":37008,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivist","communism","communist","democratic-socialism","government-regulation","revolution","socialist","statism","totalitarian","totalitarianism","utopian-socialism"],"id":170826,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"American Progressives have declared war on the sanctity and autonomy of the individual.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["anarcho-capitalism","anarchy","ancap","collectivists","communism","communists","democratic-socialism","libertarian","libertarianism","libertarians","progressive","progressives","socialism","socialists"],"id":221194,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"LENIN = 'Revolutionary Social Democracy'American Socialists = 'Democratic Socialism'. What is the difference? The USSR held democratic referendums too; all of which increased the power of the central planners and reduced the individual to nothingness.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","collectivism","communism","democracy","democratic-socialism","individual-rights","socialism","soviet-russia","soviet-union","ussr"],"id":221647,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["central-planners","central-planning","communism","communist","democratic-socialism","dystopia","government-regulation","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","planned-economies","socialism","socialist","totalitarian","totalitarianism","utopia"],"id":250244,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivism","communism","democratic-socialism","fabian-socialism","revolutionary-movement","revolutionary-theology","revolutionary-thinking","socialism"],"id":262340,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["collectivism","communism","democracy","democratic-socialism","libertarian","libertarianism","socialism"],"id":349891,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["communism","communist","democratic-socialism","engels","individual-rights","individualism","lenin","libertarian","libertarianism","liberty","marx","marxism","socialism","socialist"],"id":357489,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being 'socialists'. Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["bernie-sanders","cold-war","collectivism","collectivist","democratic-socialism","democrats","dnc","politics","socialism"],"id":429936,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}