Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income. What is most peculiar for such theoretically practical methodologies, which are also theoretically opposed to each other, is that neither of them has ever existed, except in a highly tentative form. And even then they are invariably mixed together. Their mutually exclusive vocabularies have more to do with basic similarities than with differences.

Thus the Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become t…

[S]hould we attempt to use sensible words to deal with these problems, they will be caught up immediately in the structures of the official arguments which acc…

We talk endlessly of the individual and of individualism, for example, when any sensible glance at major issues indicates that we live in an era of great confo…

We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.

Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.

From a correct Marxian point of view [...], all measures designed to restrain, to regulate and to improve capitalism were simply 'petty-bourgeois' nonsense [..…