Quotes About Capitalism

Corporate capitalism cannot be reformed. Our strength lies in our steadfastness and our integrity. It lies in our ability to hold fast to our ideals, as well as our willingness to sacrifice for those ideals. We must refuse to cooperate.

Those who slip into this illusion ignore the signs of impending disaster. The physical degradation of the planet, the cruelty of global capitalism, the looming oil crisis, the collapse of financial markets, and the danger of overpopulation rarely impinge to prick the illusions that warp our consciousness,.

Vigilante groups in America do not trade violence for violence. They are mostly white men who often prey on people of color and radicals. They are capitalism's ideological vanguard, its shock troops used to break populist movements and tyrannize the oppressed. And they will be unleashed against any mass movement that seriously threatens the structures of capitalist power and calls for rebellion.

Lenin, with a handful of subordinates, carried out what became, in essence, a right-wing counterrevolution that introduced a system of repressive, centralized state capitalism and state terror.

Luxemburg saw this betrayal as evidence of the fundamental moral and political bankruptcy of the liberal establishment in a capitalist society. By the time the war was over, eleven million soldiers on all sides, most of them working-class men, were dead. Capitalists, who had grown rich from the slaughter, had nothing to fear now from the working class. They had fed them to the mouths of machine guns.

Capitalist states seek to keep workers unconscious, Gramsci wrote, because no worker under a capitalist system will ever receive the full amount for his or her labor. This would destroy capitalism. Any worker who truly understood his or her interests would be dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism.

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of the former freedom-fighters are big-time capitalists. They've been given directorships in every major company. They're billionaires!

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

Nations that use commodity capitalism as a stepping-stone to a mixed economy based on commodity/intellectual capitalism will most likely become rich.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Competition drives growth in the end as opposed to monopolies.

I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created out of the economy and allow the rest of capitalism to flourish without the awful things that healthcare is doing to us.

I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.

We're constantly having to go head-to-head with the Bernie Madoffs of the world who just want more and more money.

The most powerful thing billionaires have isn't their voice. It's earth-shattering, continent-moving, war-starting amounts of money.

Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater.

Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

Las empresas capitalistas compran insumos de otras que tienen menores costes que ellas para producir esos mismos insumos, y venden su propia producción al intermediario que mejor puede llevar a cabo su distribución. Sin embargo, una economía socialista puede prescindir de las ventajas de la especialización, y además por motivos muy racionales, debido a las muy diferentes circunstancias bajo las que operan.

En una economía coordinada por los precios, los empleados y los acreedores insisten en que se les pague, independientemente de si los administradores o los propietarios hayan cometido errores. Esto significa que las empresas capitalistas pueden cometer muy pocos errores y durante muy poco tiempo, bajo el riesgo de detener su actividad, o de ser obligadas a ello, ya sea por la incapacidad de conseguir el trabajo y los insumos que necesitan, o por quiebra.

Sólo después, cuando el socialismo pasó de ser una teoría a ser un sistema económico real en varios países, se hizo dolorosamente evidente que las personas en los países socialistas tenían mayores problemas para costearse aquellas cosas que, en los países capitalistas, la mayoría de la gente podían comprar con facilidad.