There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The plundering of the human spirit by the market place is paralleled by the plundering of the earth by capital. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Capitalism, in contrast, has existed for fewer than 300 years. If the entire history of Homo sapiens was a 24-hour day, then… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a… — Rirkrit Tiravanija Copy Share Image
The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“Ideology is essentially a matter of meaning; but the condition of advanced capitalism, some would suggest, is one of pervasive non-meaning. The… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
“What this means is that we should reject not only all manifestations of ‘alternative modernity’ (which amount to a ‘capitalism without capitalism’,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
It is absurd for anyone to think that Soviet "Marxism" is a correct application of the thought of Karl Marx. No doubt… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for exterminating themselves, but are we any… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
As the news media eagerly report on polls showing that millennials increasingly reject capitalism, progressives energetically push the Democratic Party to the… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
