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"In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism."
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"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."
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"Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights."
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"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."
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"I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated."
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"The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society."
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"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."
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"There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism."
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"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class."
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"If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism."
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"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate."
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"Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships."
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"In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital."
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"I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation."
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"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."
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"The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship."
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"I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist."
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"It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more."
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"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."
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"All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market."
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"The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known."
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