Quotes About Capitalism

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.

It is doubtful that Corbyn deliberately seeks out antisemites to associate with and to support. But it seems that when he encounters them, their Jew-hatred is irrelevant as long as their other positions—on class, race, capitalism, the role of the state, and Israel/Palestine—are to his liking.

Capitalism sold a flat white to me as if it were a cup of freedom.

book of 2000 by Craig Gay (With Liberty and Justice for Whom?: The Recent Evangelical Debate over Capitalism), which showed that evangelical Christians on the left took wealth as given, manna, and "hence applied their Christian/Biblical principles only to the problem of (static) distribution, whereas the evangelicals on the right emphasized incentives to the ongoing creation of wealth, innovation, etc."8

Nor during the Age of Innovation have the poor gotten poorer, as people are always saying. On the contrary, the poor have been the chief beneficiaries of modern capitalism. It is an irrefutable historical finding, obscured by the logical truth that the profits from innovation go in the first act mostly to the bourgeois rich.

the much-maligned "capitalism" has raised the real income per person of the poorest since 1800 not by 10 percent or 100 percent, but by over 3,000 percent.

Commerce works better than theft.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

Windows plastered with advertisements for all the things we were supposed to want that were killing us.

Indeed, it was the British Empire that, in tandem with the American democratic capitalist system, created the global economy as we know it, based as it is on consumer-driven markets, rule of law, and the ideal—at least in North America, Europe, and a growing number of emerging nations—of free and open societies. Especially

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call it decadent and dangerous.

Democracy is for those who can buy it.

money making money making money into a giant fucking tower of bullshit.

This sounded the death knell of small family businesses, soon to be followed by the disappearance of the individual entrepreneur, gobbled up one by one by the increasingly hungry ogre of capitalism, and drowned by the rising tide of large companies.

You see, everything is fine so long as you make money by it." These last words seemed to freeze the serious men. The conversation dropped flat, and each appeared to avoid his neighbour's eyes.

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor.

The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: "To take is more blessed than to give"; "buy cheap and sell dear"; "one soiled hand washes the other.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.