In a
1949 article,
Einstein described the "predatory phase of human development", exemplified by a chaotic
capitalist society, as a source of evil to be overcome. He disapproved of the
totalitarian socialist regimes in the
Soviet Union and elsewhere; in the contemporary West, his position would probably be called
social democratic.
- Why socialism? (http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm) - Albert Einstein, Monthly review, 1949-05 (original manuscript (http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/global/popups/socialism.php)).