What Albert Einstein thinks about capitalism
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 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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