Quotes About Capitalism

What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

trabajos de intermediario, haciendo inventarios y recuentos. Esto significa que los representantes, corredores, dependientes, contables, etcétera, serán despedidos gradualmente a medida que sus puestos de trabajo vayan desapareciendo. Estos empleos se encuadran en lo que se llama «la fricción del capitalismo». Ahora mismo ya es posible comprar un billete de avión buscando en la web los mejores precios, prescindiendo del agente de viajes.

A Commie. She was a jerky Red. She owned all the trimmings and she was still a Red. What the hell was she hoping for, a government order to share it all with the masses? Yeah. A joint like this would suddenly assume a new owner under a new regime. A fat little general, a ranking secret policeman, somebody. Sure, it's great to be a Commie . . . as long as you're top dog. Who the hell was supposed to be fooled by all the crap?

Sermaye Mandeville'in öÄŸretilerini iyi kavram??t?r. Bugün çoÄŸu ücretli iÅŸçi bir iki kez ücret alamasa ciddi ölçüde mali darl??a düÅŸecek durumdad?r. Ä°ÅŸçilerin her zaman emek güçlerini satmak zorunda kalmalar?, onlar? görünmeyen ama saÄŸlam zincirlerle sermayeye baÄŸlar.

Gerçekten de, iktisadi bunal?mlar, doÄŸal afetler ve savaÅŸlar, kapitalistlerin büyük ölçeklerde varl?k ele geçirmesi için harika f?rsatlara dönüÅŸmüÅŸtür. Felaketlerden sonraki yaÄŸmac? müdahalelere "?ok doktrini" denmektedir.

Komünistler kapitalizmin evriminin proletaryay? gitgide yoksullaÅŸt?raca??na inanm??lard?, günün birinde Avrupa'n?n bütün iÅŸçilerinin iÅŸlerine arabayla gittiÄŸini keÅŸfedince, gerçeÄŸin hile yapt???n? hayk?rmak arzusuna kap?lm??lard?r. Gerçek, ideolojiden daha güçlüydü.

A "businessman," meanwhile, was not just a craftsman who made goods or a merchant who traded them, but a more fluid kind of capitalist, constantly finding new ways to turn a profit.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

History only suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.

Who Protects the Consumer? It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens. —Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, vol. I, [>]

Hollywood had revealed itself in countless ways as one of the most hypocritical capitalist enclaves in the world, with a preening surface attitude advocating progressivism, equality, inclusivity and diversity—except not when it came down to inclusivity and diversity of political thought and opinion and language.

Too often we put the gospel of Jesus through the strainer of consumerist-capitalism and retain only the thin broth that this modern-day Caesar lets pass through.

capitalism may be the unequal distribution of wealth, socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.

Attribute the declining life expectancy in the former Soviet Union to the failures of communism many years ago, but never attribute the high infant mortality rate in the United States (now highest of the major industrial nations) to the failures of capitalism.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

Capitalism, too, ws forged in blood and tears; it is just that it has survived long enough to forget about much of this horror.

The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they're winning. Then it moves in with its water hoses and paramilitary squads, and if these fail with its tanks.

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees.

It is capitalism that sees production as potentially infinite, and socialism that sets it in the context of moral and aesthetic values. Or as Marx himself puts it in the first volume of Capital, "under a form appropriate to the full development of the human race.

Baa Baa Black Sheep' makes Marx's Capital look like Mary Poppins .

Much of the media under capitalism avoid difficult, controversial or innovative work because it is bad for profits. Instead, they settle for banality, sensationalism and gut prejudice.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It indicates that the system has ceased to be as natural as the air we breathe, and can be seen instead as the historically rather recent phenomenon that it is.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.