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"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
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"Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning."
"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy."
"I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Christmas holiday the more spiritual I feel about it"
"What the working man sells is not directly his labour, but his labouring power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. this is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Laws, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his labouring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer."
"We've each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men's profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that."
"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."
"You know you are capitalism's ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom."
"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."
"The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating way. We feel there is so much in us that has not got an expression in capitalism. You know, capitalism is a machine that recognizes outward financial, external achievement. And most of us carry all kinds of richness which we are unable to translate into that language."
"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."
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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
"The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state."
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