Alternatives Quote by Cornel West

You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be…

— Vladimir Lenin

“I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are…

— Benito Mussolini

The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is…

— Robert Gilpin

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.

— Michael Parenti

A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he…

— Saul Alinsky

“It is especially humbling that the simplest Trotskyist, council communist or anarcho-syndicalist militant saw much more clearly than famous and brilliant theorists that, however…

— G. M. Tamas

“I belong to a generation that came of age listening to news of the collapse of the Communist dicatorships and never felt the slightest…

— Thomas Piketty

Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how…

— Allen W. Wood

Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of…

— Joseph Stalin

Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still…

— Peter Singer

“The winner takes all mindset at the root of capitalism is a poison if left unchecked. That’s not to say capitalism is bad per…

— James Morcan

For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism…

— Raghuram Rajan