Democratic Quote by Michael Parenti

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Marxian Socialism or state Capitalism, no doubt is the irrefutable paragon of what is a coveting and thus corrupt disposition. For Whatmore could possibly…

— Daryavesh Rothmensch

“Economic insatiability is as old as money itself, but it has been greatly exacerbated by the institutions of capitalism. Today, it is the business…

— Edward Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky

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

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

“It seems obvious to me now – though I have been slow, I must say, in coming to the conclusion – that the institution…

— Max Eastman

Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop…

— George Fitzhugh

The whole Jeffersonian ideal was that people are temporarily in government. Government is not the basic reality. People are. The private sector. And government…

— Jerry Brown

Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone…

— Allen W. Wood

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this…

— Henry Adams

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society…

— Benjamin Tucker