Capitalism Quotes - Page 17

• People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that was because capitalism requires more and more things being turned into money - being turned into profit. But that has reached this absurd limit where there's nothing left to turn into money, and the capitalist system is breaking down.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Kids, Clothes, People

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I think what we're going to ultimately recognize is that capitalism was a transitional and immature system. It got the planet to be globalized and now something else has to emerge. We have to be the ones. We can't wait around. Nobody else is going to do it for us. We have to be the ones who create that new emerging system.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Thinking, Waiting, Immature

  Interview with Russell Brand, Graham Hancock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Thinking, Long

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• If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.

  Eve Ensler

  Mean, Thinking, Looks

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• If you just sort of say, everyone gets equal pay, you get away from the whole American dream, you get away from capitalism in a sense.

  Donald Trump

  Dream, Equal Pay, Get Away

  "Who, exactly, was Ivanka Trump endorsing?" by Philip Bump, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2016.

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• The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively address complex, long-term problems like the climate crisis. Which brings me to my other major concern - the short-term focus of capitalism. It distorts the allocation of resources and the decision-making processes of companies.

  Al Gore

  Long, Focus, Decision

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Art, Life Is, Socialism

  "Interview: Philosopher King Mike Birbiglia of 'Don't Think Twice'". Interview with Patrick Mcdonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Art, Wall, Writing

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• Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Business, Garbage, Communism

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• What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.

  Rodney Clapp

  Worry, People, Historical

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• It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.

  Rodney Clapp

  Appreciate, Desire, Benefits

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• Capitalism is the key to survival.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Keys, Survival

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• In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Men, Doe, Hardship

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• Different people rise to the top under socialism than under capitalism. The higher on the socialist hierarchy you look, the more you will find people who are too incompetent to do the job they are supposed to do.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Jobs, People, Different

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• The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Average, Progress, Improvement

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• It is now that the Left in India is urging the federal government to initiate unconditional talks with all stakeholders in Kashmir. Otherwise, up until now, the Left didn't even support the autonomous status of Kashmir, and the Kashmir imbroglio is not a conflict between the forces of Marxism and capitalism.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Government, Support, Kashmir

  "The Hidden Tragedy of Kashmir". Interview with Souad Sharabani, www.counterpunch.org. September 15, 2016.

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• Marx is thought of as an implacable foe of capitalism. But go back and read the first section of the Communist Manifesto. Notice how it contains a paean of praise for the way capitalism and the bourgeoisie have both enriched the human powers of production and also enabled us to see with clear vision the nature of human society and human history.

  Allen W. Wood

  Vision, Bourgeoisie, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It has taken me a long time to realize where I most disagree with Marx. His assessment of capitalism is far too favorable. He took its instability, inhumanity and irrationality to be signs that it was a merely transitional form, which had delivered into humanity's hands the means to a much better way of life than any that have ever existed on earth. Marx could not bring himself to believe that our species is so benighted, irrational and slavish that it would put up with such a monstrous way of life.

  Allen W. Wood

  Believe, Taken, Mean

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• Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future.

  Allen W. Wood

  Gateways, Form, Higher

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• Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself, perhaps doomed to perish within a few generations from the long term effects of the technology which seemed to Marx its greatest gift to humanity.

  Allen W. Wood

  Technology, Long, Humanity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.

  Allen W. Wood

  Loyalty, Imagine, Victim

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• Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today - show above all that they are not living in the real world. They are behaving as though the undeveloped form of capitalism Smith studied is still with us.

  Allen W. Wood

  Real, World, Today

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• In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.

  Allen W. Wood

  Reality

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• Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender of certain state actions that he thought necessary in order to safeguard the good effects of commercial society (Smith did not speak of 'capitalism' and was acquainted only with an early undeveloped form of it). Among these state actions the chief was general public education.

  Allen W. Wood

  Order, Action, Horror

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.

  Allen W. Wood

  Ambition, Greed, Unhappy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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