“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the… — Jerry Ash Copy Share Image
...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial. — Kalle Lasn Copy Share Image
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say,… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“The law of socialist economy is this: from each according to his exploitability, to the nomenklatura according to its greed.” — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
In the bureaucratic machine of socialism the way toward promotion is not achievement but the favor of the superiors. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When a capitalist looks at the river, all they can think about is, "How can I pollute this river and destroy it… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Far from being Eurocentric, my analysis "exoticizes" Europe. Europe is historically aberrant. In some ways this was a historical accident, not entirely… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
There are lots of things that Jeremy Corbyn feels strongly about. He definitely doesn't like wars, nuclear weapons, or free market capitalism.… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Capitalism doesn't function when it starts to contract, and we can see that quite clearly right here in the eurozone. It's like… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Nothing in our time is more interesting than the erstwhile capitalist corporation and the erstwhile Communist firm should, under the imperatives of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Think of the problem of the world as a cart. It has to have two wheels. If you have one wheel, the… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
I do fear that global capitalism is making us more like each other in regrettable ways, e.g., more people are increasingly captivated… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“John Kenneth Galbraith, in The Economics of Innocent Fraud, provided a still stronger condemnation of prevailing economic and social science, arguing that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market … What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Policing. You think you've got it tough. You don't have any idea how it was when I joined the force. The whole… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
“Today, we have mercenaries in Africa, corporate armies from the western world, and unemployed men throughout the Middle East killing their own… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Reification, the essential tendency of capitalism, can never be wholly realized. If it were, if the system were actually able to change… — Cornelius Castoriadis Copy Share Image
I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I would consider a socialism a mixture of the minimum of centralization necessary for a modern industrial state, and a maximum of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Advertising, the product of capitalism, can only justify itself on the premise that the market is a force for good. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The USSR model was never a serious threat to anyone's bottom line. People blow up over Germany because, for all its left-wing… — Thomas Geoghegan Copy Share Image
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
Those who share the same values with you are your darlings, not those who share the same blood with you. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image