Einstein was a Socialist
"It is society which provides man with food, clothing, a home, the tools of work, language, the forms of thought, & most of the content of thought; his life is made possible through the labour and the accomplishments of the many millions past and present"
Einstein was a Socialist
"Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, [all people] feel insecure, lonely, & deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society"
Einstein was a Socialist
"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production (cont...)
at the expense of the smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organised political society."

Einstein was a Socialist and described in 1949 the UK in 2019
Einstein was a Socialist

"The consequence of [there being an oligarchy of private capital] is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. (Cont...)
Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen (Cont...)
to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."

Wooah! Albert Einstein in 1949 is describing UK in 2019.
Einstein was a Socialist

"This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success ..."
Einstein was a Socialist

"The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society"
- Why Socialism?
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