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Capitalism Quotes

This is a page where the critics talk the most. David Harvey, Fidel Castro, Jim Stanford, Michael Parenti and Terry Eagleton lead, so much of what is here is argument from the left. The sourced material is more varied. G. K. Chesterton, in The Utopia of Usurers (1917), warns that the community the capitalists are constructing will be complete and absolute. Bertrand Russell, in 1963, says he dislikes communism because it is undemocratic and capitalism because it favours exploitation. Malcolm X, in 1965, argues that you cannot have capitalism without racism.

The one flagged entry is “Fascism is capitalism in decay,” credited to Lenin and marked misattributed.

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One might even say that it's one of the scandals of capitalism that most capitalist firms, internally, operate communistically.

David Graeber

Indeed, many businessmen seem on the evidence to have been wary of the closet anti-capitalism of the rank-and-file Nazis.

Richard Overy War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)

Film making is a miniature sized capitalism. Money and money people talk. Some people tend to think they can be more creative than the director they hire.

Hideo Nakata

We have become so confined, so thoroughly damaged, by capitalism as well as state control that crumbs appear to make a nourishing meal.

Cindy Milstein Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)

"The agrarian question is a permanent question at the heart of capitalism."

Sam Moyo

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.

Francis Parker Yockey

Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows from Socialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.

George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)

"It is the welfare state that has made capitalism, with all its attendant benefits of economic growth, politically feasible..."

Nicholas Barr

Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!

Larry Kudlow

Sabotage means to push back, pull out or break off the fangs of Capitalism.

Bill Haywood

Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.

Jeremy Hardy

The fist in the face, that is the only argument capitalism understands, and Bolshevism has used the fist, hard, very hard but certainly justified.

Ture Nerman

The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.

Irving Kristol

The industrial animal factory offers a nightmarish glimpse of what capitalism is capable of in the absence of any moral or regulatory constraint whatsoever.

Michael Pollan

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Angela Carter The Bridled Sweeties (1977)

Capitalism is man exploiting man. Socialism is just the opposite.

Coluche

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

Michel Chossudovsky The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition (2003)

Capitalism is about the mutual creation of wealth rather than the pillaging of it.

Ted Malloch Doing Virtuous Business (2011)

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

David Harvey The Limits To Capital (2006)

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

David Harvey The Limits To Capital (2006)

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