Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for puttin...

The progressive Christian’s error lies in believing that Christianity’s perennial polemic against the rich is an implicit defense of sociali...

Socialism makes use of greed and misery; capitalism makes use of greed and the vices. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 392

Nothing is easier than to blame Russian history for the sins of Marxism. Socialism continues to be the philosophy of shifting blame onto oth...

Socialism arose as nostalgia for the social unity destroyed by bourgeois atomism. But it did not understand that social unity is not the to...

Capitalism is the vulgar side of the modern soul, socialism its tedious side. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 304

The embourgeoisement of the proletariat originated in its conversion to the industrial gospel preached by socialism. Escolios a un Texto Imp...

Socialism is the commercial name of state capitalism on the electoral market. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 275

Capitalist society became wealthy by joining the ignorance of an astute entrepreneur, whose job is to direct, with the science of a stupid t...

Capitalism is abominable because it achieves that disgusting prosperity promised in vain by the socialism that hates it. Escolios a un Texto...

With the object of preventing dangerous concentrations of economic power in the hands of a few anonymous associations, socialism proposes th...

An economy is called socialist if it needs to make great efforts to set up the spontaneous mechanisms of capitalism. Escolios a un Texto Imp...

Note: This entry is designed to gather into one place the aphorisms in which Gómez Dávila mentions Marx, Marxism, and Communism. Other relev...