Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources… — Ellen Meiksins Wood Copy Share Image
Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
Competition always tends to bring about the most economical and efficient method of production. Those who are most successful in this competition… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . .… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Moreover the present abundance3 of private cars is nothing other than the result of the non-stop propaganda through which capitalist production persuades… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Any attempt to solve the ecological crisis within a bourgeois framework must be dismissed as chimerical. Capitalism is inherently anti-ecological. Competition and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Production organized by workers builds new relations among producers—relations of cooperation and solidarity; it furthermore allows workers to end “the crippling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The anarchists cannot consider, like the collectivists, that a remuneration which would be proportionate to the hours of labour spent by each… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
