V.F. Calverton on socialism: “The people, of course, may make a mess of things, but at least they will have made it & not the bankers and industrialists, and it is always better to suffer and die for something you have done yourself than for something that has been done to you.”
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This reminds me of
@CoreyRobin's phrase: “Socialism: Converting Hysterical Misery into Ordinary Unhappiness.”1 reply 1 retweet 4 likesShow this thread
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I forget who it was (maybe Sidney Hook?) but someone once defined socialism as attempting to move humanity from the realm of pathos to the realm of tragedy.
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