Age Quote by Edward Abbey

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

— Dora Russell

“The essence of modern capitalism is not slavery of the antique pattern but the possession of the expensive tools of production by a small…

— Francis Stuart Campbell

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's…

— Terry Eagleton

“The very same bourgeois mentality which extols the manufacturing division of labour, the life-long annexation of the worker to a partial operation, and the…

— Karl Marx

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought…

— Emily Greene Balch

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

— Immanuel Wallerstein

I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it…

— Alain Badiou

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy —…

— Wendell Berry

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization.

— Serj Tankian

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even…

— George Packer

“The great bourgeois revolutions of modern times offered an ideology of sweeping political reconstitution, but in reality they merely certified the social dominance of…

— Murray Bookchin

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged…

— John Berger