Capitalist Quotes - Page 12

• Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Years, Iceland

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• My concern over private property is that it no longer fosters individuality. The historic destiny of private property is that it has created a highly corporatized economy, and I have to ask myself why. What is it in the market that led 100 capitalists to dissolve into 10 as a result of rivalry and accumulation, 10 into 3, and I think if the system has its way, those 3 into 1?

  Murray Bookchin

  Destiny, Thinking, Individuality

  Source: reason.com

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• Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling of scarcity, is a feeling of economic insecurity. Along with that is a feeling of deprivation... And unless we can demonstrate that that feeling is not justified technologically, we will not be able to speak intelligently to the great majority of people and reorganize our economy so that we really know what needs are rational and human and what have been created, almost fetishisticaly, by the capitalist economy.

  Murray Bookchin

  Capitalist Economy, People, Feelings

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of
  spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.

  Joseph Stalin

  Desire, Raw Materials, Sphere Of Influence

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• Many understand "state socialism" in this way. Sometimes a system is concealed behind this term in which the capitalist state, in the interests of preparation for the conduct of war, takes upon itself the maintenance of a certain number of private enterprises.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Numbers, Preparation

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• We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Class, Workers

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• Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

  Bill Ayers

  Country, Class, Challenges

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Am I a capitalist? No. Why would I be a capitalist? I have no capital. Most people have no capital. But to punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Sin, Individual

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• In the mid to late nineteenth century, the gun manufacturers recognized that they had a limited market. Remember that this is a capitalist society, you've got to expand your market. They were selling guns to the military. That's a pretty limited market. What about all the rest of the people? So what started was all kinds of fantastic stories about Wyatt Earp and the gunmen and the Wild West, how exciting it was to have these guys with guns defending themselves against all sorts of things.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Gun, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• This guy [Steve Lerner] is pure, 100% anti-capitalist and what he wants is what Cloward-Piven has basically said: Just overwhelm the system. It's sort of a derivative of Cloward-Piven.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Guy, Want, Derivatives

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This guy [Steven Lerner] is a pure anti-capitalist. He despises America. He is on a personal crusade.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Guy, Despise

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What's interesting is that Citizen Kane was meant as an anti-fascist/anti-capitalist melodrama and for Donald Trump it becomes just another kind of misogynistic claim that misses the point.

  Errol Morris

  Interesting, Missing, Citizens

  Source: collider.com

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• In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of it, you're supposed to get the profit. It doesn't happen in our system. The taxpayer paid for it and gets nothing - assumes all of the risk, gets zero. The money goes into the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are ripping off decades of work in the public sector.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Zero, Long

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We know form past experience that when you put women's issues or face issues on the back burner, they never get dealt with. So all struggles have to be dealt with simultaneously, but within an anti-capitalist framework. A monumental task, but nothing less will do.

  Michael Yates

  Struggle, Past, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far more formidable, far better organised. But we would have wanted to hear the voice of the anti-imperialist forces, those who espouse the cause of freedom, the cause of independence, everywhere.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

  Ai Weiwei

  Luxury, Desire, Today

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist.

  Karl Marx

  Labourers, Ifs, Disposable

  Source: thecorporateasylum.com

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• I don't agree with the Black Lives Matter organizers. They are stated as anti-capitalists. And it's much more than just the police to them. It's about changing society entirely.

  Glenn Beck

  Police, Black, Matter

  "Glenn Beck Speaks At Conservative Blog 'RedState' Gathering". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2016.

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• In 2014, when Hillary Clinton was not yet running for president, I stated that I was not in agreement with her politics. More recently, when asked my thoughts about Hillary Clinton during a public conversation with Gloria Steinem, I stated, "she embodies the very best of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't vote for her."

  Bell Hooks

  Running, Mean, Agreement

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• Productivity-the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy-is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

  Tim Jackson

  Capitalist Economy, Progress, Literature

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• I call both the left and right wings socialism. And today, the right-wingers love to think that they're capitalists, or free enterprisers, or what not. No they're not! The correct name for this is left-wing socialism or right-wing socialism - and both wings are on the same bird.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Thinking, Names, Wings

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• Most banks - with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here - have decided that they can't make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they're going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Want, Casinos

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?

  Frank Schaeffer

  Nice, Gay, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to do is to get the kind of economic growth of the capitalist world. It can't be done. It creates the same kind of problems as in the capitalist world.

  Harry Magdoff

  Growth, Done, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think the other side of this is that while the contradictions matter, one of the things that you cannot lose sight of is that even with a guy like [George] Soros the thing that he doesn't question, which does unify that class, is that they don't want to get rid of the capitalist system, they don't see an alternative.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, Sight, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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