The irony of capitalist discontent with democracy is that…

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

— Vladimir Lenin

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for…

— Peter Thiel

This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to…

— Tariq Ali

Islamic laws this is something Americans should look into, maybe not in the near future, but I think people are definitely looking for alternatives…

— Anjem Choudary

I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy,…

— Angela Davis

Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade…

— Kenneth O. Morgan

“That comes to about one hundred million people in India alone from 1947 to 1980. But we don’t call that a crime of democratic…

— Noam Chomsky

The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of…

— Wilbur Smith

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

— Ed Asner

The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined…

— James P. Cannon

In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

— Roger Lowenstein

We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition.…

— David Harvey

The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce.…

— Richard D. Wolff

“Private property based on the labour of the small proprietor, free competition, democracy, i.e., all the catchwords with which the capitalists and their press…

— Vladimir Lenin

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

— James Cook