Friday, February 15, 2019

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." #QotD


Today's Quote of the Day comes from a book by Ronald Wright, summarising author John Steinbeck's whinging that America was still not, yet, a socialist paradise:
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor [there] see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
[Hat tip Marsha Enright] 
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1 comment:

  1. The ironic thing is it's philosophically crippled publicly shamed millionaires now who are virtue signalling the world into socialism.

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