Quotes About Capitalism

In capitalist terms, art is a global marketplace and artistic labour is too.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

As things stand today capitalist civilization cannot continue; we must either move forward into socialism or fall back into barbarism.

Progress makes purses out of human skin.

Capitalism is war socialism is peace.

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser

The intellectual desolation, artificially produced by converting immature human beings into mere machines.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.

Robert Owen's was a true insight: market economy if left to evolve according to its own laws would create great and permanent evils.

There is no law of progress, and everything will depend on ourselves. But the actual situation is briefly and fairly summed up by Parkes36 in one sentence: 'Low wages, long hours, and child labour have been characteristic of capitalism not, as Marx predicted, in its old age, but in its infancy.

When the Marxists say, as they sometimes do, that Marx has proved the uselessness of a counter cycle policy and of similar piecemeal measures, then they simply do not speak the truth; Marx investigated an unrestrained capitalism, and he never dreamt of interventionism.

Where is the invisible hand? "It is often invisible because it is not here," according to economist Joseph Stiglitz.

over the past couple of centuries, just as Rostow spelled out, capitalist economies have restructured their laws, institutions, policies and values so that they are geared to expect, demand and depend upon continual GDP growth.

The rise of shareholder capitalism entrenched the culture of shareholder primacy, with the belief that a company's primary obligation is to maximise returns for those who own its shares.

But it cannot happen unless private industry is allowed to flourish in a system of free-enterprise. The problem with this option

The institutional requirements of community pose fundamental issues that neither corporate capitalism nor state socialism ever took seriously. The critical point of departure is the question: Can you have Democracy with a big D in any system if you don't have democracy with a small d in the actual experience and everyday community life of ordinary everyday citizens?