Chris Hedges Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Media, Sick

• The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

  Chris Hedges

  Evil, Empires, Terrorism

• Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

  Chris Hedges

  Numbers, Revolutionary, Force

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.106, Nation Books

• I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

  Chris Hedges

  Blame, Praise, Economic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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