--- title: "21 Capitalist Production Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 21 Capitalist Production quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Capitalist Production sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/hannah-arendt-610_born_imperialism-was-born-when-the-ruling-cla_594070.jpg" --- > [Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/imperialism-was-born-when-the-ruling-class-in-capitalist-production/) [Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/hannah-arendt-610_born_imperialism-was-born-when-the-ruling-cla_594070.jpg) > [Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/human-beings-are-not-efficiently-designed-for-a-capitalist-system-of/) [Eric Hobsbawm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-hobsbawm/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/588/eric-hobsbawm-20660_capitalist_human-beings-are-not-efficiently-designe_1451958.jpg) > [But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/but-capitalist-production-begets-with-the-inexorability-of-a-law-of/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef9/karl-marx-399_begets_but-capitalist-production-begets-with-th_2694524.jpg) > [Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/capitalist-production-does-not-exist-at-all-without-foreign-commerce/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d9/karl-marx-399_business_capitalist-production-does-not-exist-at_1813307.jpg) > [Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/capitalist-production-therefore-develops-technology-and-the-combining/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d96/karl-marx-399_capitalism_capitalist-production-therefore-develops_3031434.jpg) > [The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-discovery-of-gold-and-silver-in-america-the-extirpation/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/250/karl-marx-399_aboriginal_the-discovery-of-gold-and-silver-in-amer_2639614.jpg) > [“Capitalism is also incapable of promoting sustainable development, not because it encourages technological advances that are capable of straining the earth's resources…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-meiksins-wood/capitalism-is-also-incapable-of-promoting-sustainable-development-not/) [Ellen Meiksins Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-meiksins-wood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f10/ellen-meiksins-wood-99920_capitalism_capitalism-is-also-incapable-of-promotin_663871.jpg) > [Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/work-work-proletarians-to-increase-social-wealth-and-your-individual/) [Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/paul-lafargue-40097_becoming_work-work-proletarians-to-increase-socia_2384022.jpg) > [Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/just-as-man-is-governed-in-religion-by-the-products-of-his-own-brain/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/karl-marx-399_brain_just-as-man-is-governed-in-religion-by-t_1894483.jpg) > [It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/it-appears-then-that-capitalist-production-comprises-conditions/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca4/karl-marx-399_capitalist_it-appears-then-that-capitalist-producti_1082057.jpg) > [The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-directing-motive-the-end-and-aim-of-capitalist-production-is-to/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96d/karl-marx-399_aim_the-directing-motive-the-end-and-aim-of_3037849.jpg) > [Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/confronted-with-this-double-madness-of-the-labourers-killing/) [Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/877/paul-lafargue-40097_abstinence_confronted-with-this-double-madness-of-t_578336.jpg) > [“discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/discovery-of-gold-and-silver-in-america-the-extirpation-enslavement/) [Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d0/jack-weatherford-17286_capitalist_discovery-of-gold-and-silver-in-america_255986.png) > [Competition always tends to bring about the most economical and efficient method of production. Those who are most successful in this competition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-hazlitt/competition-always-tends-to-bring-about-the-most-economical-and/) [Henry Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-hazlitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab2/henry-hazlitt-2839_acquire_competition-always-tends-to-bring-about_3166162.jpg) > [The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . .…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-a-schumpeter/the-capitalist-engine-is-first-and-last-an-engine-of-mass-production/) [Joseph A. Schumpeter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-a-schumpeter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58c/joseph-a-schumpeter-9723_achievement_the-capitalist-engine-is-first-and-last_3128435.jpg) > [The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-von-mises/the-capitalist-system-of-production-is-an-economic-democracy-in-which/) [Ludwig von Mises](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-von-mises/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8d/ludwig-von-mises-364_business_the-capitalist-system-of-production-is-a_1816621.png) > [“Moreover the present abundance3 of private cars is nothing other than the result of the non-stop propaganda through which capitalist production persuades…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-mcdonough/moreover-the-present-abundance3-of-private-cars-is-nothing-other-than/) [Tom McDonough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-mcdonough/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/168/tom-mcdonough-22302_60_moreover-the-present-abundance3-of-priva_2053434.jpg) > [“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/it-is-not-enough-that-the-conditions-of-labour-are-concentrated-at/) [Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/565/karl-marx-399_revolution_it-is-not-enough-that-the-conditions-of_1380783.jpg) > [“Any attempt to solve the ecological crisis within a bourgeois framework must be dismissed as chimerical. Capitalism is inherently anti-ecological. Competition and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/murray-bookchin/any-attempt-to-solve-the-ecological-crisis-within-a-bourgeois/) [Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/murray-bookchin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/413/murray-bookchin-2587_climate-change_any-attempt-to-solve-the-ecological-cris_566086.jpg) > [“Production organized by workers builds new relations among producers—relations of cooperation and solidarity; it furthermore allows workers to end “the crippling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/production-organized-by-workers-builds-new-relations-among-producers/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e96/anonymous-1_community_production-organized-by-workers-builds-n_1431052.jpg) > [“The anarchists cannot consider, like the collectivists, that a remuneration which would be proportionate to the hours of labour spent by each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pyotr-kropotkin/the-anarchists-cannot-consider-like-the-collectivists-that-a/) [Pyotr Kropotkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pyotr-kropotkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/169/pyotr-kropotkin-15647_anarchism_the-anarchists-cannot-consider-like-the_3062935.jpg) ## Top authors on Capitalist Production - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-karl-marx-55237.jpg) Karl Marx 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capitalist-production/karl-marx/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capitalist-production/#itemlist", "name": "Capitalist Production Quotes", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Hannah Arendt" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/imperialism-was-born-when-the-ruling-class-in-capitalist-production/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/hannah-arendt-610_born_imperialism-was-born-when-the-ruling-cla_594070.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/hannah-arendt-610_born_imperialism-was-born-when-the-ruling-cla_594070.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28d/hannah-arendt-610_born_imperialism-was-born-when-the-ruling-cla_594070.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its…” — Hannah Arendt", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Eric Hobsbawm" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/human-beings-are-not-efficiently-designed-for-a-capitalist-system-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/588/eric-hobsbawm-20660_capitalist_human-beings-are-not-efficiently-designe_1451958.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/588/eric-hobsbawm-20660_capitalist_human-beings-are-not-efficiently-designe_1451958.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/588/eric-hobsbawm-20660_capitalist_human-beings-are-not-efficiently-designe_1451958.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.” — Eric Hobsbawm", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. 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"Quotation", "text": "Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Karl Marx" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/just-as-man-is-governed-in-religion-by-the-products-of-his-own-brain/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/karl-marx-399_brain_just-as-man-is-governed-in-religion-by-t_1894483.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/karl-marx-399_brain_just-as-man-is-governed-in-religion-by-t_1894483.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40d/karl-marx-399_brain_just-as-man-is-governed-in-religion-by-t_1894483.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is…” — Karl Marx", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": 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Without entering here into a discussion as to how far the exchange value of each merchandise is really measured now by the amount of labour necessary for its production—a separate study must be devoted to the subject—we must say that the collectivist ideal seems to us merely unrealizable in a society which has been brought to consider the necessaries for production as a common property. Such a society would be compelled to abandon the wage-system altogether. It appears impossible that the mitigated individualism of the collectivist school could co-exist with the partial communism implied by holding land and machinery in common—unless imposed by a powerful government, much more powerful than all those of our own times. 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