"Opera bouffe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is all. The idea that the housewife in the future, when she wants to sew a button upon a garment, will be obliged to go to some department and "take out" a needle, having it properly checked in the communal accounts, and being responsible for its return, is, of course, worthy only of opera bouffe. So is the notion of the state owning wheelbarrows and market baskets and making their private ownership illegal. "The socialization of all the means of production, distribution, and exchange," literally interpreted, is folly. But none of those using ...
— Socialism - A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles • John Spargo |
