"A nationalized planned economy needs democracy, as the human body needs oxygen."
— Socialism

January 1, 1970

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Leon Trotsky in a statement of 1936, as quoted in The Informed Vision: Essays On Learning And Human Nature (2002) by David Hawkins, p. 25; sometimes paraphrased "Socialism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen."