Economics Quote by Naomi Klein

The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.

— Patrisse Cullors

“manufacturing false hierarchies based on race and gender in order to enforce a brutal class system is a very long story. Our modern capitalist…

— Naomi Klein

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the use of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“At the dawn of the nineteenth century, many parts of the world, especially in Africa, lacked a state that could provide even a minimal…

— Daron Acemoğlu

But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation…

— John F. Kennedy

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is…

— Ludwig von Mises

It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic,…

— Ash Sarkar

“World inequality today exists because during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries some nations were able to take advantage of the Industrial Revolution and the…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Inclusive economic and political institutions do not emerge by themselves. They are often the outcome of significant conflict between elites resisting economic growth and…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“the immigrants who secure rights thanks to the anti-racist anti-colonial struggle might be securing the right to free capitalist enterprise, refusing to see, refusing…

— Slavoj Žižek

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell

“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other “color-blind” New…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates