“For by this unjust plan they must of necessity eliminate the valuable members and retain only the improvident, unskilled and vicious.”

Robert Dale Owen

~ Robert Dale Owen
(1801-1877) Scottish-born Welsh-American social reformer, State Congressman (IN-D), US Congresman (IN-D)
In reference to the failed socialistic utopian community, New Harmony, Indiana, that his father Robert Owen founded.
The New Harmony Communities, 1902
https://www.maciverinstitute.com/perspectives/the-failed-socialist-state-in-midwestern-america