Capitalist Quotes - Page 18

• In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Blow, Russia, Years

  Roger Lowenstein (2000). “When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management”, Random House Incorporated

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• You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Literary Theory, Talking, People

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs

  James Connolly

  Mother, Country, Army

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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• The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?

  James Connolly

  Mean, Fighting, Son

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• Karl Marx once said, 'The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.' Marx was wrong. The last capitalist to be hanged shall be the one who donated the rope, and then lobbied for his own hanging.

  Amy Ridenour

  Rope, Lasts, Environment

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• At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Peace, World, Statesmen

  Benjamin Disraeli (2009). “Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1860-1864”

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• I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

  Anton Yelchin

  Community, Environment, Massive

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• To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.

  Jane Fonda

  Jobs, People, Discipline

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• In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.47, Random House

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• People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea?
  I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.

  Thurston Moore

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies - leads to monstrous absurdities. The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion.

  Felix Guattari

  Fashion, Growth, World

  Félix Guattari (1995). “Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm”, p.21, Indiana University Press

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• I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Perspective

  "On Revolution: A Conversation Between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis". Interview with Grace Lee Boggs, www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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• Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
  basic tyrant of the modern age.

  Edward Abbey

  Tyrants, Age, Modern

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Crush, Struggle, Long Ago

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• Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.

  Henry Ford

  War, Dirty, Greed

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• The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

  William Henry Harrison

  Adventure, Government, Law

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• Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

  Assata Shakur

  School, Skills, Long

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books

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• Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Jobs, Sex

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• You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Creating, Patriarchy

  "bell hooks on Beyoncé: She Is a ‘Terrorist’ Because of Her ‘Impact On Young Girls’" by Britni Danielle, clutchmagonline.com. May 8, 2014.

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• I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.

  Che Guevara

  Octopus, Comrade

  Letter to his aunt Beatriz in 1953. "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" by Jon Lee Anderson, 1997.

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• What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

  Ben Horowitz

  Sheep, Venture, Lemmings

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• Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind that comes through private ownership and control, which is an *extremely* rigid system of domination - people have to... people can survive, by renting themselves to it, and basically in no other way... I do disagree with them *very* sharply, and I think that they are not..understanding the *fundamental* doctrine, that you should be free from domination and control, including the control of the manager and the owner.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Thinking, People

  "Donahue/Pozner", February 14, 1992.

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• The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Long, Libertarian, Socialism

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• By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Victory, Towns

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• Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Intellectual, Fertility

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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