Quotes About Capitalism

What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we do more than reflect the decay around and within us? Can we do more than sing our sad and bitter songs of disillusion and defeat?

Human dignity is something one need not look for in the world of capitalists. V. I. Lenin

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

My term "minor feelings" is deeply indebted to theorist Sianne Ngai, who wrote extensively on the affective qualities of ugly feelings, negative emotions—like envy, irritation, and boredom—symptomatic of today's late-capitalist gig economy. Like ugly feelings, minor feelings are "non-cathartic states of emotion" with "a remarkable capacity for duration.

The takeaway from the crowd-pleasing opening scene in the novel and film Crazy Rich Asians is the following: if you discriminate against us, we'll make more money than you and buy your fancy hotel that wouldn't let us in. Capitalism as retribution for racism. But isn't that how whiteness recruits us? Whether it's through retribution or indebtedness, who are we when we become better than them in a system that destroyed us?

In our efforts to belong in America, we act grateful, as if we've been given a second chance at life. But our shared root is not the opportunity this nation has given us but how the capitalist accumulation of white supremacy has enriched itself off the blood of our countries. We cannot forget this.

But our shared root is not the opportunity this nation has given us but how the capitalist accumulation of white supremacy has enriched itself off the blood of our countries. We cannot forget this.

During this period the model minority myth was popularized to keep Communists—and black people—in check. Asian American success was circulated to promote capitalism and to undermine the credibility of black civil rights: we were the "good" ones since we were undemanding, diligent, and never asked for handouts from the government. There's no discrimination, they assured us, as long as you're compliant and hardworking.

The takeaway from the crowd-pleasing scene in the novel and film Crazy Rich Asians is the following: "If you discriminate against us, we'll make more money than you, and buy your fancy hotel that wouldn't let us in." Capitalism as retribution for racism. But isn't that how whiteness recruits us? Whether it's through retribution or indebtedness, who are we when we become better than them in a system that destroyed us?

themselves. During this period the model minority myth was popularized to keep Communists—and black people—in check. Asian American success was circulated to promote capitalism and to undermine the credibility of black civil rights: we were the "good" ones since we were undemanding, diligent, and never asked for handouts from the government. There's no discrimination, they assured us, as long as you're compliant and hardworking

My ancestral country is just one small example of the millions of lives and resources you have sucked from the Philippines, Cambodia, Honduras, Mexico, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, El Salvador, and many, many other nations through your forever wars and transnational capitalism that have mostly enriched shareholders in the States. Don't talk to me about gratitude.

It was made clear to me that the subject of Asian identity itself was insufficient and inadequate unless it was paired with a meatier subject, like capitalism.

Capitalism as retribution for racism. But isn't that how whiteness recruits us? Whether it's through retribution or indebtedness, who are we when we become better than them in a system that destroyed us?

English is our ever-expanding neoliberal lingua franca, the consumer language of brand recognition and outsourced labor.

the "advertising lords" of Madison Avenue who "had reduced Christmas to a carnival of mass marketing.

Fundado en la combinación incesante de posibilidades inéditas, el capitalismo encuentra en la indiferencia una condición ideal para su experimentación, que puede cumplirse así con un mínimo de resistencia. Instrumento de ninguna instancia en particular, la indiferencia es metapolítica, meta-económica, permite al capitalismo entrar en su fase de funcionamiento operacional.

A sociedade de consumo é programada do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.

A sociedade de consumo é programação do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.

Foreign monopoly capitalism and the comprador bourgeoisie hinder the growth of industry: they must be opposed by the people's democratic revolution.

Revolutionary law number one," someone said. "Capitalism has cheated us. Books are not to be bought, they are to be repossessed." "This is robbery," I said. "Let's not kid ourselves. And don't do that to me again. You scared me to death." "It's not robbery. Books are ideas. They should be able to circulate freely within society. At no price at all, or for pennies. Knowledge is universal. It belongs to all of us.

El triunfo de los dictadores es consecuencia de tres fracasos: de la filosofía, de la religión, del capitalismo democrático.

Money doesn't talk it screams

In 2015, during a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Rasmussen noted, "Some people in the U.S. associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear: Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy."3

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion.