Quotes About Capitalism

Less immediately significant but of greater importance for totalitarian governments was the other experience in Africa's race society, that profit motives are not holy and can be overruled, that societies can function according to principles other than economic, and that such circumstances may favour those who under conditions of rationalised production and the capitalist system would belong to the underprivileged

All the déclassés of capitalist society were finally ready to unite and establish mob organizations of their own; their propaganda and their attraction rested on the assumption that a society which had shown its willingness to incorporate crime in the form of vice into its very structure would by now be ready to cleanse itself of viciousness by openly

The bourgeoisie, so long excluded from government by the nation-state and by their own lack of interest in public affairs, was politically emancipated by imperialism. Imperialism must be considered the first stage in political rule of the bourgeoisie rather than the last stage of capitalism.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.

Since the Industrial Revolution, we tend to use technology to show our power: you know, we build high-rises, towers, big buildings that become symbols of power and capitalism. We don't talk about how emotions and nature can be connected.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

One God, one market, one truth, one consumer.

The dominance of the faith-based industrial complex is a Catch-22 for communities of color that lack adequate social welfare services and educational and recreational spaces under an American capitalist system that essentially outsources these services to private organizations and tax-exempt nonprofits.

Only from a capitalist viewpoint being productive is a moral virtue, if not a moral imperative. From the viewpoint of the working class, being productive simply means being exploited.

In capitalism, sex can exist but only as a productive force at the service of procreation and the regeneration of the waged/male working and as a mean of social appeasement and compensation for the misery of everyday existence.

se na sociedade capitalista a "feminilidade" foi construída como uma função-trabalho que oculta a produção da força de trabalho sob o disfarce de um destino biológico, a história das mulheres é a história das classes, [...] "mulher" é uma categoria de análise legítima, e as atividades associadas à reprodução seguem sendo um terreno de luta fundamental para as mulheres.

ofi?erii B?ncii Mondiale ?i ai FMI, care predic? înc? despre valoarea unui b?nu? acelora?i popula?ii pe care puteile dominante ale lumii le-au jefuit ?i s?r?cit vreme de secole.

Capitalismul trebuie s? justifice ?i s? mitizeze contradic?iile încastrate în rela?iile sale sociale: promisiunea libert??ii fa?? de realitatea coerci?iei la scar? larg? ?i promisiunea prosperit??ii fa?? de realitatea s?r?ciei la scar? larg?.

La caza de brujas ahondó las divisiones entre mujeres y hombre, inculcó a los hombres el miedo al poder de las mujeres y destruyó un universo de prácticas, creencias y sujetos sociales cuya existencia era incompatible con la disciplina del trabajo capitalista, redefiniendo así los principales elementos de reproducción social.

a transição para o capitalismo é uma questão primordial para a teoria feminista, já que a redefinição das tarefas produtivas e reprodutivas e as relações homem-mulher nesse período, ambas realizadas com máxima violência e intervenção estatal, não deixam dúvidas quanto ao caráter construído dos papéis sexuais na sociedade capitalista.

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.

Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.

In the coming years, if not sooner, social media will become a powerful tool that consumers will aggressively use to influence business attitudes and force companies into greater social responsibility - and, I suggest, move us towards a more sustainable practice of capitalism.