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In its literal meaning, capitalism means rule by capital, more specifically rule by the owners of capital for their exclusive private benefit.

— David Korten When Corporations Rule the World (1995)

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In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy and the market economy.

The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism (2012)

And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

I call the next system economy a “living” economy, because its underlying design principles come from our understanding of healthy living systems.

The New Economy: A Living Earth System Model (2016)

Russia...China... both have much to lose and nothing to gain from starting a 20th century-style conventional war with the United States... They are aware such a war would have devastating consequences for all — worst of all if it involved nuclear weapons.

Television has already been wholly colonized by corporate interests, which are now laying claim to our schools. The goal is not simply to sell products and strengthen the consumer culture. It is also to create a political culture that equates the corporate interest with the human interest in the public mind.

When Corporations Rule the World (1995)

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The most obvious negative feature of capitalism is that it can produce private monopolies that restrict output and thereby harm consumers.

Dennis Mueller The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism (2012)

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

Fidel Castro

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