Capitalism Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein Download Open image “Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.” — Immanuel Wallerstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalism Economics Firsts Historical History Social Social systems
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the system that has enabled greatness and made America the envy of the world. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or another variant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is a social system owned by the capitalistic class, a small network of very wealthy and powerful businessmen, who compromise the health and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes: le politique,… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death. — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio,… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy.… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Corporations have nothing to do with values, and they know it, and sometimes say it. — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.” — David L. Weimer Copy Share Image
“A car is one of the most interesting inventions, but driving is one of the most boring activities.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
