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Capitalism Quotes
"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class."
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"Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not."
76
"I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell."
67
"I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism."
64
"We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations."
64
"I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy."
62
"The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys."
60
"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."
37
"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."
34
"The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system."
34
"Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism."
32
"Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People."
32
"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."
30
"There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft."
30
"There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism."
27
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
27
"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way."
26
"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."
26
"Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism."
26
"Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation."
26
"Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook."
26
"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy."
25
"The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I."
25
"We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism."
25
"The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future."
25
"Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes."
25
"What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands."
25
"If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West."
24
"The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism."
24
"It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'"
24
"I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism."
24
"Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning."
23
"Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it."
23
"Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines."
23
"We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries."
22
"Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers."
21
"WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical."
21
"For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny."
20
"I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child."
20
"So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed."
20
"It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative."
20
"I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences."
19
"If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state."
19
"We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally."
18
"Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system."
18
"Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation."
18
"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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