Quotes About Capitalism

We disapprove of capitalism not because it promotes inequality, but because it favors the rise of inferior human types.

Marxists define the bourgeoisie in economic terms in order to hide from us the fact that they belong to it.

Capitalism is the monstrous distortion of private property by liberal democracy.

Capitalism is abominable because it achieves that disgusting prosperity promised in vain by the socialism that hates it.

Marx's main interest was in economic relationships since in his view they shape everything that we are and can become.

Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development.

Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Even in the free North, the initial turnover from black to Irish labor does not imply racial discrimination; many of the newly arrived Irish, hungry and desperate, were willing to work for less than free persons of color, and it was no more than good capitalist sense to hire them.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it is.

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city genre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it is.

Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

Greed is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed will save the U.S.A.!

Let the capitalists do their own fighting and furnish their own corpses and there will never be another war on the face of the earth.

Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another.

Prominent among the American capitalists with ties to Nazi counterparts was Prescott Bush, the father of one president and grandfather of another. Researchers have been trying for years to determine the precise nature of Bush's ties to Fritz Thyssen, the wealthy German industrialist who played a crucial role in bankrolling Hitler, as revealed in his 1941 memoirs I Paid Hitler. Thyssen ultimately repudiated the Nazi dictator and was himself imprisoned.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

With the ability to produce more goods than people need, consumer capitalism has to make children into consumers earlier and keep them at it longer. Hence contemporary America, a culture of perennial adolescents.

True capitalism can seem a lot like Nazism.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

is not a voracious capitalism but the spiritual insight that we cannot buy the identity and security we seek.