Capitalist Quotes - Page 14

• If, for example, each of us had the same share of capital in the national total capital, then if the share of capital goes up it's not a problem, because you get as much as I do. The problem is that capital in capitalist countries is very heavily concentrated, especially financial capital. So then if the share of income from that source goes up, that actually exacerbates inequality.

  Branko Milanovic

  Country, Financial, Problem

  Source: gawker.com

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• After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely viewed, at least in the West, as a benevolent hegemon. In the non-West, the US was often perceived as a supporter of the colonial powers in their struggle to maintain control over their colonial possessions, and was viewed far more critically, especially by emerging elites that were more inclined to socialist development paradigms than to the capitalist ethos favoured by Washington.

  Richard A. Falk

  War, Struggle, Ethos

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The capitalist priority is efficiency of capital and profitability, which is generally inconsistent with protecting the vulnerabilities of people and nature.

  Richard A. Falk

  People, Priorities, Efficiency

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.

  Richard A. Falk

  Strong, Humanity, Delay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.

  Che Guevara

  Taken, Important, Cuba

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• The United States of America or the Western countries, they don't have a problem with Islamists as long as they are neoliberal capitalists and promoting the economic order. And the best example is the petro-monarchies. The petro-monarchies, they don't want democracy. They say there is no democracy in Islam. But they are within the economic system.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Order, America

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• Capitalism is based on the principle that everything has to be privately owned; it can't be held in common. There is even a dogma, which is today called, the "tragedy of the commons" which holds that if things are held in common they are going to be destroyed. If they're privatized, like you give them to Bechtel or Monsanto or ExxonMobil, then they'll be preserved because that's the capitalist's religion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving, Tragedy, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.

  Dar Williams

  Cutting, People, My Family

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Thinking, Culture, Youth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there's pressure on every mayor who's trying to do the right thing by their people, and that's the pressure of a capitalist society, which does not want to give up a dime. They basically want to constrain the people in every way they can.

  Chokwe Lumumba

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

  Lee Klein

  Marketing, Artistic, Placement

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from labors of love, nurture, friendship, and barter to gift economies and different kinds of exchanges, not just one alternate model but a whole host of other ways in which we engage with each other and with the world that aren't financial and debt-based.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Debt, Goes On

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition. Well, it turns out that capitalists do everything they can to avoid competition.

  David Harvey

  Entrepreneur, Competition, Capitalism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Islamic laws this is something Americans should look into, maybe not in the near future, but I think people are definitely looking for alternatives to a capitalist democracy. The democracy that we find in the Western world is just not providing them solutions.

  Anjem Choudary

  Islamic, Thinking, People

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• The first freedom is to be in possession of yourself - to own yourself, to not be subject to the will of somebody else. In a capitalist society, that means having a certain economic wherewithal so that you can do what you wish to do without having to ask permission.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Mean, Wish, Economic

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.

  Rick Santorum

  Believe, Corporations, Should

  Rick Santorum during Republican debate at the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, time.com. November 11, 2015.

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• We have the greatest resource universities in the world, the only place in the world. We have the most productive workforce in the world. We have the most agile venture capitalists in the world. We have a situation where right now in the United States of America, we are near energy independent. North America is beginning to be the epicenter of energy. What is it that makes people think that this is not going to be the American century? I don't get it.

  Joe Biden

  Independent, Thinking, America

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  Michael Malone

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Girl, Queens, Achievement

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.67, Routledge

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• It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Income, Rich

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.397, VM eBooks

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• In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Income, Wealth, Enterprise

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.342, VM eBooks

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• It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Irony, Economics, Decent

  Kevin D Williamson (2010). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Entrepreneur, Benefits

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.35, VM eBooks

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• Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Progressive Taxation, Names

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• The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Way, Obstacles

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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