Terry Eagleton Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Mean, Devastation, Today

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

• It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

  Terry Eagleton

  Literary Theory, Marxism, Trade

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

• 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.

• Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

  Terry Eagleton

  Class, Working Class, Capitalism

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

• The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

  Terry Eagleton

  Winning, Looks, States

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

• Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.

  Terry Eagleton

  Spurs, Tasks, Socialism

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

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