There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.
Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Revolution at the Gates: A Selection of Writings from February to October 1917”, p.311, Verso
