Quotes About Capitalism

These days even mere attempts to improve capitalism are often called 'Socialism,' while in reality they are only reforms.

Think it over and see if it is not the law itself, the government which really creates crime by compelling people to live in conditions that make them bad. See how law and government uphold and protect the biggest crime of all, the mother of all crimes, the capitalistic wage system, and then proceeds to punish the poor criminal.

The solution — the only possible one — consists in the producer receiving the full value of his product, or its equivalent. This involves the termination of capitalist production for profit, and the organization of cooperative social production for use.

Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

Capitalism doesn't function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right here in the eurozone. It's like pushing a giant monster under water that's gasping for air. It goes nuts.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Engineers don't get drafted to certain companies. That's kind of peculiar in the capitalistic ways of the United States. But that's how it is.

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

The capitalist model, the developed model, the consumer model which comes from the North, which it has forced on the world, is falling apart on Earth, and there is no planet nearby that we can emigrate to.

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

Some shareholders believe it is all about price and a few people's pockets.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

Everything does not have to be a commodity.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

I am not a communist.