The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor—not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules.
- Albert Einstein
Maybe put that quote somewhere in your article about how brilliant Einstein’s politics are?
I 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. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion.
- Albert Einstein
Definitely optimistic, too bad we don’t have that today.
This was very similar as it was laid out by Plato in The Republic and Laws.
We first need a large portion of dumbshits to stop being dumbshits first before we can remove corruption, THEN comes the optimism
Americans were, if anything, more openly racist during Einstein’s day than now. What he did was to articulate and help demonstrate that a better world was possible