Albert Einstein
Theoretical physicist (1879 to 1955), born in Ulm, Germany; awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for services to theoretical physics, especially the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
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Their wordsScience, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill them in human beings; science, at most, can supply the means by which to attain certain ends.
↗Why Socialism? (Monthly Review, May 1949)web.archive.org 1st of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsFor these reasons, we should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems; and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.
↗Why Socialism? (Monthly Review, May 1949)web.archive.org 2nd of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsMan can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.
↗Why Socialism? (Monthly Review, May 1949)web.archive.org 3rd of 8 in this piece
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Our reading
The economic anarchy of present capitalist society is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil
Their wordsThe economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.
↗Why Socialism? (Monthly Review, May 1949)web.archive.org 4th of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsThe result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society.
↗Why Socialism? (Monthly Review, May 1949)web.archive.org 5th of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsThis crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil.
↗Why Socialism? (Monthly Review, May 1949)web.archive.org 6th of 8 in this piece
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Their wordsI am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
↗Why Socialism? (Monthly Review, May 1949)web.archive.org 7th of 8 in this piece
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Our reading
A planned economy is not yet socialism and may come with the complete enslavement of the individual
Their wordsNevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual.
↗Why Socialism? (Monthly Review, May 1949)web.archive.org 8th of 8 in this piece
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