Capitalist Quotes - Page 4

• In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Rewards, Given, Staggering

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• In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Party, Capitalist Economy, Political

  Geoff Mulgan (2015). “The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

  Clara Zetkin

  Fighting, Men, Hands

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• The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

  James Connolly

  Female, Slave, Workers

  The Re-conquest of Ireland (1915)

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• Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Country, Children

  Thomas F. Jackson, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice”, p.230, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

  Fidel Castro

  Ideas, United States, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, Careers, America

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.87, Vintage

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, America, Politics

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Democracy, Minorities, Rich

  "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, vol. 25, 1993.

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• Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Girlfriend, Problem, Dues

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• There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.

  Amadeo Bordiga

  Lasts, Economy, Genre

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• We are a great capitalist society, that works most of the time. We do need to take better care of our people and fix the access, cost, and quality of healthcare. But we need to act intelligently. We needed the intervention of government to keep the economy from falling into an abyss, but we must now encourage the creation of business - not burden it.

  James A. Champy

  Fall, People, Quality

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• Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Communication, Fighting, Voice

  "If You Like FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd and Van Jones, You'll Love Free Press Co-Founder Robert McChesney" by Seton Motley, www.newsbusters.org. November 5, 2009.

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• Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Decomposition, Form, Inevitable

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.410, Routledge

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• You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Struggle, Winning, Phones

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• If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.

  Michael Moore

  Christian, Believe, Pregnancy

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• The key to the defeat and eventually the end of imperialism as a a whole is the unity of all socialist countries and progressive forces in capitalist countries.

  Tim Buck

  Country, Keys, Socialist Countries

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• The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.

  Jerry Brown

  Population, Strategy, Breaking Down

  "As Mayor of Oakland, Jerry Brown Woos Business and Trumpets Order". www.wsj.com. August 10, 1999.

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• Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

  Eric Liu

  America, Worry, Six

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• Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

  Elon Musk

  Real, Law, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Party, Blow, Assessment

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to develop the productive forces in a socialist society. Of course, this will bring some decadent capitalist influences into China. We are aware of this possibility; it's nothing to be afraid of.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Technology, Play, Effort

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical.

  Joel Salatin

  Christian, Humorous, Libertarian

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• The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the suggestion I will make to you is that the idea of constant accumulation, which is what America is about, what consumerism, NAFTA are about, means that you always take more than you need and you don't leave the rest. So I suggest that it is possible from an indigenous world view that capitalism is inherently out of order with natural law.

  Winona LaDuke

  Mean, Order, Law

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• The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

  Henry Adams

  Party, Hands, Reform

  Henry Adams, Worthington Chauncey Ford (1969). “1892-1918”

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