If MT was truly a Socialist, would he have said...
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Mark Twain
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.
Mark Twain
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that
there is no distinctly native criminal class except
Congress.
Mark Twain
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you
were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is
a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government
when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
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Perhaps Socialism in his day looked
more like conservatism in our day.
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat. -- 1886 speech, "Knights of Labor -- The New Dynasty"otoh
I missed one thing in the South -- African slavery. That horror is gone, and permanently. Therefore, half the South is at last emancipated, half the South is free. But the white half is apparently as far from emancipation as ever. America ["Life on the Mississippi" chapter 48]