Re: oscar wilde on socialism?

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

it sounds like a response to Albert & Hahnel's participatory economy.

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

> I don't have any source, but the quote I recall (and one that 
> sounds much
> more like Wilde) was "the problem with Socialism is that it 
> takes up too
> many spare evenings."  I'd love to hear the exact quote, of course.
> 
> Frederick Emrich, Editor
> > below was posted to another list...  michael hoover

> > The statement "The trouble with Socialism is too many meetings," is
> > frequently attributed to Oscar Wilde. A Google search has turned up
> > several attributions of the statement, but no formal citations. It
> > does not appear in my editions of the Oxford Dictionary of 
> Quotations
> > or Bergen Evans' Dictionary of Quotations. Does anyone have a firm
> > citation to where (or if) he wrote or said it?  Thanks.