Hans-Peter Dürr on Socialism and Centralization

„We have drawn the completely wrong lesson from the collapse of the Eastern European states if we think it had anything to do with socialism. It has to do with centralization. If we in the West move toward the same kind of centralization—and we are well on our way to doing so—we will end up with the same excesses, the same ills, the same demotivation, and the same deprivation of people’s rights.“

Hans-Peter DürrHans-Peter Dürr warns about the negative effects of centralization beyond socialism and its impact on society and rights.
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Hans-Peter Dürr was a German physicist and essayist.

A critical view on centralization and its social consequences.


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Hans-Peter Dürr quote about socialism and centralization

Hans-Peter Dürr was a German physicist and essayist. He served several times on the directorate of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and worked closely with Werner Heisenberg for many years. Later, he increasingly focused on questions of epistemology and social policy.

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