Capitalist Quote by Michal Kalecki Download Open image “The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.” — Michal Kalecki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capitalist Economics Workers
In a capitalist system, things are valued by what people will pay for them. — John Currin Copy Share Image
Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist… — Bill Haywood Copy Share Image
Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce.… — Richard D. Wolff Copy Share Image
Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it produces new,… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of… — Michal Kalecki Copy Share Image
It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system,… — Michal Kalecki Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social,… — Davis McCaughey Copy Share Image
The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed. — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
