Capitalist Quotes - Page 16

• The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees.

  Eduard Bernstein

  Numbers, Degrees, Wealth

  Eduard Bernstein (1911). “Evolutionary Socialism: a Criticism and Affirmation: (Die Voraussetzungen Des Sozialismus und Die Aufgaben Der Sozialdemokratie.)”

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• Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Growth, Assumption

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• We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Mutual Support, Fabric Of Life, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Winning, Past, Our World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think we need to get to the roots of problems as we try to solve them. I also like the word anti-capitalist.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Latin, Thinking, Roots

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You build movements and keep people in a struggle when it feels productive. Anti-capitalists have typically been the people in movements who have declared every gain to be a trick of the capitalist class to buy us off. That line isn't very inspiring, and it shows no sensitivity to how social movements actually succeed.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Struggle, Class, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Yes it is true that pro-capitalist forces have a lot of power. But so did slave-holding racists. We give ourselves hope when we conceptualize capitalism as a set of practices that can be challenged by fighting the piece of the puzzle we feel most compelled to fight.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Fighting, Practice, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

  Albert Einstein

  Party, People, Political

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.

  Michal Kalecki

  Workers

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• If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.

  Glenn Beck

  Country, World, Stuff

  "Take the 'The Story of Stuff' Quiz". "The Glenn Beck Program" with Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2009.

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• In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

  Noam Chomsky

  Class, Facts, Social

  "Chomsky: "The Business Elites... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

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• What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  America, Capitalism

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.

  Fady Joudah

  Reflection, Thinking, Views

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Hollywood executives are, like, ‘We’re not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we’re capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don’t like Kevin Hart.’

  Bill Maher

  Hollywood, Racist, Kevin

  "Bill Maher Whitesplains Hollywood’s Diversity Problem: It’s China’s Fault". deadline.com. January 23, 2016.

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• ...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew.

  Friedrich Engels

  Crush, Communication, Views

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Viktorovich Adoratskiĭ (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895”

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• Nobody has to tell me about the glories of the capitalist system. But what concerns me is that there no longer seems to be a commitment to make the opportunities afforded by technology and capitalism universally accessible.

  Marianne Williamson

  Commitment, Technology, Opportunity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Imagination, Perspective, Waiting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The main argument is that capitalism is constituted by a varied of different practices, and so challenging capitalism needs to be about a variety of struggles. I draw on the important work of J.K. Gibson-Graham, who argues that we should model anti-capitalist struggle on feminist struggles.

  Cynthia Kauffman

  Struggle, Practice, Feminist

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.

  Noam Chomsky

  Problem, Well Known, Ownership

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging in backbreaking toil are people who are doing it for sport. To find people whose day's toil has not been lightened by mechanical invention, you must go to the non-capitalist world.

  Milton Friedman

  Sports, People, Toil

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Competition

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

  Lawrence Reed

  People, Heartless, Stripes

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• The crucial role of the rich in a capitalist economy is... to invest; to provide unencumbered and unbureaucratized cash.

  George Gilder

  Capitalist Economy, Roles, Cash

  George F. Gilder (1981). “Wealth & Poverty”, Ics Press

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• He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

  Karl Marx

  Air, Hiding, Owners

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• If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

  Terence McKenna

  Dog, Writing, Technology

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