Quotes About Capitalism

In conclusion, I became both dads. One part of me is a hard-core capitalist who loves the game of making money. The other side is a socially responsible teacher who is deeply concerned with this ever-widening gap between the haves and the have notes. I personally hold the archaic educational system primarily responsible for this growing gap.

Exactly! Fang would say. Your father was the consummate American id, an insatiable narcissist, a shameless capitalist who wanted to screw everyone.

There is the capitalist approach (make it bigger), the technocratic one (make it better), the 'revolutionary' solution (portray the problem as an example of an exploitative system) and the pre-industrial romantic fallacy (don't use it; maybe it will go away by itself). We propose a fifth alternative response: Let's invent a different answer."28

This had been a bad section of town before the Circus moved in and brought in money, which attracted other businesses. The area had been gentrified not because of some government interference, but by good old-fashioned capitalism, which was one of Jean-Claude's favorite things.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

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.

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

What has changed in 40 years? It's very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Al explorar el mercado en busca de artículos de consumo, son atraídos a los comercios con la promesa de que allí encontrarán las herramientas y materias primas que pueden (y deben) usar para volverse "aptos para el consumo", y por lo tanto cotizar en el mercado.

Consumer freedom means orientation of life towards market-approved commodies and therefore precludes one crucial freedom: freedom from the market, freedom that means anything else but the choice between standard commercial products. Above all, consumer freedom successfully deflects aspirations of human liberty from communal affairs and the management of collective life.

It is because the moral economy has little need of the market that market forces are up in arms against it.

The necropolitical core of patriarchal capitalism is snuff pornography, the abject centre that no one wants to face. It is the logical conclusion of a system that treats women as "things", of an irrational hatred that rapes and murders countless women every minute of the day simply because they are not male. We have entered the era of shock and awe misogyny.

Ageism is the intimate colonisation of embodied time by the vampiric forces of patriarchal capitalism that instils an ideological timebomb in the female mind that ticks with the incessant and cruel warning that the passing of time is something for which women must be punished. Women, far more than men, are judged by how old they are and how old they look. The threatening ticking of male domination reduces women's social and economic worth to how "fresh" we appear.

We surf the waves of capitalism, from crest to trough and back again, but the funny thing is that no matter how often we ride the wave, nobody notices that it's wet. When we are on the crest, we believe that we have climbed a mountain through our own virtuous efforts, and when we are in the trough, we believe that we have fallen into a pit through out own vice.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.